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IN SHORT, Gloria is a sappy PG movie about a gun moll with a heart of gold--a two-hour meditation on a cliche. There is very little more than that: something, perhaps, like "love wins in the end," "little people can beat the system," or "women can beat men...
Like the narrator says of the two leading men, Mazursky is "looking for answers but not knowing the questions." Is Mazursky trying to make a major film about the Seventies? Or is he addressing the way women play on men's minds? The director cannot decide. As a result, his...
The other, more serious, half of the problem lies in the book's format. Broder says he wanted to let his politicians speak for themselves-and do they speak. The author's confidence in his subjects' political futures may be partially born out by their mastery of the Harmless Generalization...
When he tells this anecdote, Fuller loves to emphasize that the Israelis are survivors. This same heavy-handed irony slips into The Big Red One only in the final scene, when Fuller cannot restrain his narrator (Fuller himself, since the film is largely autobiographical) from underlining the message about survival...
Fuller's boys manage to turn up everywhere that's anywhere in the war--we're almost surprised that they don't show up on the outskirts of Hiroshima in August, 1945--but a sequence inside a Nazi concentration camp is certainly not a Hollywood war movie cliche. And while...