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IN Atlantic City, the East Coast's first legalized gambling paradise takes form on screen as a sore on the continent's skin, a pustule that bursts every decade or two. The film jumps back and forth among images of demolition and urban renewal: a billboard on a lone, dilapidated...
Directed by Louis Malle
The second highest pleasure of Atlantic City is Susan Sarandon, whose fate, up to now, has been to be the best thing about oddball movies like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Malle's earlier Pretty Baby. Here she is Sally, a clam-bar waitress who is as determined...
True to this vision of life, the movie has an unemphatic vagueness about it. It observes the ambiguous gesture, records the half-formed thought, very well. But Malle and Guare seem more amused than engaged by the piece, and one finally begins to long for a firmer narrative, some truly...
Can she act? After eight films, it is still not possible to say more than that there is no reason to think she cannot. Some of her movies have sunk out of sight, and one, Peter Fonda's Wanda Nevada, was never released. Director Malle guided her brilliantly through...