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THE POIGNANI JUXT APOSITION between the illusion of hope football offers the town and the reality in which they live makes much of All the Right Moves an incisive example of social criticism. When the team captain tells a stadium full of adult fans "We're not doing this just...
WHILE VIETNAM REMAINS simple and straightforward, the product so far has been highly professional. With relatively little commentary, the speaker narrates events in detail but refrains from editorializing; he speaks intelligently and treats the viewer as intelligent. The film is crisp with no music save in the opening and closing...
The sharp edge of grief--the death of a parent, for instance--may slice through one's day-to-day sensibilities. Personal tragedy becomes linked to universal--to war to cruelty, to the inevitability of death it self. Similarly, a supremely wonderful or insightful moment may spark a feeling of...
Levine's mistake is making Harvard the centerpiece rather than the backdrop for her novel. The result is an ambiguous, often pretentious, and (still more often) inane jumble of Harvard trivia, the diary of any student at the College would be at least as insightful. Those seeking to capture, or...
Interminable scenes of Lianna alone in her bare apartment are highlighted by the strains of sentimental love-songs. Director Sayles heightens the effect by shooting from above, making the character seem trapped and helpless. Neither insightful nor original, the work is fundamentally boring. Sayles heightens this effect too, one hopes...