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...Schickel's review of Mommie Dearest [Sept. 21] stands as tragic testimony to one of the most serious obstacles to recognizing the extent of child abuse in our country, namely, that it's really no big deal for parents to haul off at their children now and then...
...between Mason and Kristy McNichol, playing her daughter. The youngster has an ease and grace (and a lovely physical presence) that make her scenes with Mason strictly no contest, and grant the film such warmth and human interest as it contains. Maybe Simon should consider adopting her. -By Richard Schickel...
...Oyly Carte production of The Mikado must have looked in the '20s, Hudson painstakingly makes an obscure corner of history reverberate in a nearly mythic way. It is lovely work. And like old snapshots of forgotten people from another time, strangely evocative and moving. -By Richard Schickel...
...scale of this project, for one senses throughout that he is pulling back to the safely particular rather than straining forward toward a more daring grandeur. Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design. -By Richard Schickel...
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