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...current belief that the big bucks are in the big-bang school of moviemaking. In War Games the search for a big, effects-laden finish does not render the film entirely unwatchable. It just prevents it from becoming the video fantasy it might have been. - By Richard Schickel...
...could have been merely a well-shot and -edited compilation of irresistible music. But they are never so many that they interfere with the film's soaring flights of song. Say Amen, Somebody is a movie to which even a tone-deaf atheist will say amen. - By Richard Schickel...
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...higher calculus of the emotions. This all serves the text but not the irresistible demands of the movie medium for emotional intensity. Film finally betrays Betrayal as an overly stylized, schematic work in love with its own design, unedifying about the people trapped within its grid. -By Richard Schickel...