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...response to the performance when I saw it was that, regardless of how he may or may not change your perception of the original film??he does a great job of providing a model for how we can intelligently review cultural objects,” she says...
This is not When Harry Met Sally, but Hitch does perform one of that film??s most astonishing tricks: Hitch believably turns Kevin James into a romantic lead worthy of Amber Valletta. If nothing else, the film is inspiring for all those goofy, awkward, smart Harvard men with few social skills...
...formulaic and superficial. Lines like “I don’t want you ruining your life the way I did,” spoken to Anne by her bitter mother Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), sound like they would be better placed in daytime television. And the film??s end, full of morals like John Joe’s “when you got music, you got friends for life,” becomes intolerably preachy and unbelievably sappy...
...notoriously hard-hitting for its portrayal of LaMotta’s abusive relationships with his wife, played by Cathy Moriarty, and his brother, played by Joe Pesci. Raging Bull also marked the return of star, director, and screenwriter Paul Schrader from Taxi Driver, and shares much of that film??s deep exploration of the coincidences of power, sex, violence, and of one man’s tragic self-destruction. Raging Bull is one of the great films of the ’80s, but it follows the ’70s traditions of gritty action, fantastic performances...
...filmic masterpiece and reviled as racist propaganda, The Birth of a Nation has forged its place in America’s cinematic, social, and political history. Originally titled The Clansman, after Reverend Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 play on which the film is based, the film??s adopted title does little to hide its true subject, a three-hour epic of the Civil War, post-war Southern Reconstruction, and development of the Ku Klux Klan...