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...lovers, and Martin is his hilarious self, libeling all dentists who had just managed to forget Marathon Man. Then Bill Murray shows up as the perfect dental patient, sublime masochist to Martin's cheerful sadist, and strolls away with ; the picture. Little Shop never quite recovers its bearings; the viewer may not either. Death by laughter. -- By Richard Corliss...
...Little Red Button, Tarkovsky presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown to epiphany, via the Inferno, and releasing him on a world still crouching beneath a specter...
...painstakingly made; the storm that imperils them in their last refuge; the mad attack by Allie on a missionary settlement -- all of these are well staged but lacking in resonance. The problem is that the high- pitched whine of Allie's character finally vitiates not merely the viewer's sympathy for him, but sympathy for the movie he dominates, despite the care and courage that went into its making...
Elite bilingualism--that acquired in foreign language classrooms, on university exchange programs, or by having a French governess--is clearly a good thing. Somehow, in the mind of the viewer, it is of greater value than the bilingualism acquired inevitably by the child growing up in Spanish Harlem or in Brownsville, Texas...
...Chinese art is the representation of an idea," Wu Hung explains. "In Western art, there is less emphasis on the political attitude of the painter; instead, there is a personal relationship between the viewer and the painting...