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...critically understated in general, the band was, for a time, the middle-child of indie rock’s late-eighties inception; robbed both of Sonic Youth’s extended-career veneration and the Pixies’ cult-pop status, Dinosaur Jr. was expected to produce a single masterpiece??namely 1987’s “You’re Living All Over Me,”—and languish into its prescribed stoner-rock loveseat. The alleged indignity with which the original lineup dispersed (Mascis reportedly fired bassist Barlow without ever actually telling...
...Because it overcomes the weaknesses of its genre by playing them as strengths. It isn’t a masterpiece??it’s fluff and Myers knows this. It’s why her pictures are successful...
...others in attendance, Wilson’s “lightning” quote could have applied to Miller’s masterpiece??except that the postmodernist deejay would likely object to the notion that “truth” can be objectively defined...
Scorsese is not past his prime. As recently as 1999 he crafted a masterpiece??Bringing Out the Dead. That film took audiences through hell, showing audiences the world through a broken emotionally drained ambulance driver. It was filled with passion and fire—it had sense of immediacy...
...severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece?? before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw out the next line in the kidnapping chain; the kidnappers’ villainy is constant, conveniently making sure we can continuously support Creasy’s quest...