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...cocaine. The former point is more important here, especially as many film critics and historians have recently attempted to reevalute Heaven’s Gate as a great piece of art, a classification they suggest has been made impossible by the press and its intractable concern with the film??€™s disastrous production and financial failure...
...particular group of ladies, Beauty Shop is rooted in frank conversations that we could be having with our own packs of friends. In spite of some weaknesses, there is an undeniable charm to the actors, each of whom create a distinct character with a significant role in the film??€™s entertaining, side-splitting, and pertinent discussions of sexuality, race, and body image...
What’s truly disturbing, though, is that all three of the film??€™s antiheroes take a vengeful joy in the grisliness they inflict. It’s enough to make even the fans of the comic books queasy; violence rendered in artful black-and-white line drawings is very different from live-action carnage...
...hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film??€™s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...
...tired, due mainly to a refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film??€™s tone...