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...single movie; a filmgoer will watch a movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood, making blunt attempts to simultaneously assert and conceal their claims to intellectual superiority...
...mutual appreciation of artist and audience alike, not solely for the benefit of its creator. When the dialogue on film is held behind closed doors in a college classroom or at an exclusive, meaninglessly referential symposium, the general population has no choice but to trot off in droves to Hollywood drivel...
...Hollywood, in the last five years, has invented a new form of entertainment...
Meanwhile, the last year has also witnessed Lazarus-like returns by several formerly struggling A-listers like Demi Moore and Uma Thurman (not to mention the current governor of California), none of whom was able to deliver box office results equal to their reputation in Hollywood...
...despite Thurman’s near-false start with last December’s quickly bounced Paycheck). Luminous and fashionably skeletal in last weekend’s Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (which earned more in its first weekend than Vol. 1), Thurman is once again a hot commodity in Hollywood, where the break-up of her recent marriage adds an extra dimension to her comeback...