steven spielberg

  • A harsh review of Steven Spielberg's Munich over at The New Republic. [Registration required, but use bugmenot, whynot?] I haven't seen the film, but this passage seems to capture the essence of Spielberg's work in the last decade:
    The film is powerful, in the hollow way that many of Spielberg's films are powerful. He is a master of vacant intensities, of slick searings. Whatever the theme, he must ravish the viewer...Spielberg knows how to overwhelm. But I am tired of being overwhelmed. Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me?
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    12/9/2005
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