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...unnecessary to excessively condemn Spartan, which will provide any reasonably discerning filmgoer with an enjoyable viewing experience. Nevertheless, it will leave many of Mamet’s fans frustrated that this great writer has squandered such an enormous talent and resigned himself to turning out moderately entertaining mediocrity...
...then, we don't have to be. For a critic or a filmgoer, an actor's private life should be irrelevant to the art and glamour he can create onscreen. And there, alchemy occurs. Crowe is often magnificent: attractive, complex, subtle. Watching him slip inside a role is a matter not of forgiving but of forgetting all the tabloid baggage. The lout of a thousand headlines vanishes, and the superb movie actor appears magically in his place. When Crowe is at the helm of a movie, we're proud to sail with...
...filmgoer of a certain age, your image of electroshock was shaped by such movies as The Snake Pit or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the latter, a small army of orderlies and nurses restrain Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) as he is connected to the electrodes. The treatment is agonizing because McMurphy isn't given anesthesia, which has been routine for years...
...there are beguilements aplenty in the work of some of France's ageless actress-beauties: Beart, Catherine Deneuve, Arielle Dombasle, Edith Scob, Marie-France Pisier. In their smart frocks and pretty predicaments, they make Proust seem a fashion that could never go out of style. This is a serious filmgoer's treat: intelligence cloaked in elegance...
...exactly what happens in the final shot (hint: recall what the witch made the kids do) and who the villain is (one guess: the missing filmmaker)? We'll say good, that ambiguity can coexist with atrocity. The film also plays upon the horror genre's attraction-repulsion for the filmgoer: what-happens-next? vs. why-am-I-watching-this? It makes canny use of dramatic longueurs. It's scary even when nothing happens, because something awful might, and, eek!, right now! Anticipation is all. Anxiety is a more powerful emotion than shock. Knowing we are to die is worse than...