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...Richard Schickel...
...matter be stated as forcefully as possible: Death Wish is a meretricious film-in its curious lack of feeling even for innocent victims of crime, in its hysterical exaggerations of an undeniable problem, and especially in its brazen endorsement of violence as a solution to violence. ·Richard Schickel...
...latter resolution in Parallax and it is a downer. Though a touch of paranoid fantasizing can energize an entertainment, too much of it is just plain crazy-neither truthful nor useful. And certainly nothing for responsible men to try to make a buck with in the movies. ∎ Richard Schickel...
...other things, a good corrective to last year's PBS trip with the Louds, not to mention a decade of American self-contempt over the war. In the long process of "bringing us together again," 2,251 Days is a significant step in the right direction. ∎ Richard Schickel...
...Land. There was a certain stately glory to those works, a sense that Troell's pioneers were big enough to deserve the great country he seemed to perceive with a fresh eye. In Zandy's Bride the land is unfortunately allowed to dwarf the characters. · Richard Schickel...