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...APPRECIATION By Richard Schickel...
...forgetful, distracted modern mind. That means the obsessive Jonathan has a more important historical role to play than he perhaps imagines. It also means that this often vivid movie, though it doesn't quite attain its highest intentions, is well worth seeing. And thinking about. --By Richard Schickel...
...modest, subtle and humane temperament. He became a revered Hollywood elder and president of the Directors Guild and the Motion Picture Academy, which he managed as he did his sets--with a quiet intelligence that in an ego-driven industry was the more welcome for its invisibility. --By Richard Schickel...
...with themes on this scale finally fails. His is a dispassionate sensibility, and he is not a strong enough actor -- nor has he a strong enough intelligence -- to fight his way out of the false analogy he has drawn between moviemaking and tragic history in the making. --By Richard Schickel...
...that, director Van Looy imparts a wonderful sense of a glum, dark place--Belgium--that we rarely if ever visit at the movies. The logic of his film, in its plotting and its emotions, is impeccable. And haunting in a way that few crime films ever are. --By Richard Schickel...