Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

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Something between a hippie fantasy and a bittersweet memoir is a godsend to the New Mexico Tourist Board

When J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World had its premiere in Dublin in 1907 there were riots in the streets because the play was thought to be a vicious slander on the Irish people. Synge had seemed to suggest that it was characteristic of the Irish blarney, at least among the rural folk that…

A movie more sympathetic than you would expect towards religious experience, but not really very much interested in it

Jim Carrey plays the only decent, honest guy in the world who, having been screwed over by the system, turns to crime. What’s so funny about that?