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24th October 2009

On Law Abiding Citizen

Or How to Review an Archetypal Movie, Again

By John Lobell

A while back, I did a review of Phantom of the Opera in which I took reviewers to task for not knowing what the movie was about. (See http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera/ )

As those who make movies move to explore archetypal themes, they are leaving the reviewers behind, who can only comment on production values. Read the rest of this entry »

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