Word: sordidly
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...Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want you to cut his thing off," she cries to a detective toward the end of this strange, sordid movie. By this time, not a few members of the audience may be thinking the same...
...before it. Still, the pleasure of watching good character men like Brian Keith, Charles Burning, Bernie Casey and the estimable Richard Libertini going pocketa-pocketa as Sharky's Machine warms up is not to be lightly dismissed. And neither is Reynolds' good sense of the way the sordid and the sleek coexist in Big City life. The man has a feel for the director's craft that could, some day, permit him to break the genre bonds that finally trip him up here...
...Despite sordid charges, a basketball-fix trial stirs little interest...
...attempts at teaching youth via fairy-book change of time, place, and character, and captivating adults via snatches of humor, the movie's thrust falls somewhere in the dangerous middle ground. Gilliam was Python's sordid animator in Time Bandits and often uses people as if they were cartoons. There are many violent scenes worthy of Tom and Jerry or Wile E. Coyote except with live subjects as characters smash into walls, eat rats, and explode. It's bad enough when Elmer Fudd blows up and survives unscathed, but the violence here is too up-front to be humorous...
...biggest contributors to the Catholic Church in southern California, the archdiocese in which Desmond's considerable ambitions lie. To its credit, True Confessions does not seek a tidy ending that will send the folks home happy, but rather explores the complication and ambiguities of this sordid situation; the message in this movie of all losers and no winners is grim indeed. But because of the weakness of its explication, that message loses the resonance it might have had in a better film...