| Critic |
Review |
Quote |
Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times |
American Gangster |
"You could call these images metaphoric, something about the oozing, bleeding body of the exploited underclass, but mostly they're just graphic evidence of the damage done." |
Karl Marx and Neil Young in the same sentence; pretty nice.
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Armond White,
New York Press |
American Gangster |
"When Hillary Clinton commissioned a TV spot where she and Bill re-enacted the final scene of the HBO series The Sopranos, it was not only an appalling example of pop-culture pandering, but it implicitly aligned politicians with gangsters as an All-American family ideal. The Clintons' ethical catastrophe was undeniable proof that the gangster film (and its permutations) has superseded the Western, taking over the popular imagination of essential American identity." |
Read the review and you will be shocked and awed by how often the Clinton-Soprano simile can be referenced.
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J. Hoberman,
The Village Voice |
American Gangster |
"The world capital of smack and police corruption — such was disco-era New York. Still, for all of American Gangster's discreet period markers and cleverly cobbled-together locations, it doesn't get the period's putrid exhilaration — the sense of irreversible decay and giddy disorder." |
Ah, our nostalgia for disco-era New York. A time of putrid exhilaration and giddy disorder, rather than putrid disillusionment and giddy idiocy.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Bee Movie |
"Vanessa, with her alert, almond-shaped eyes, doesn't have the creepy hyperhuman quality of the characters in the Shrek movies: She looks blessedly cartoonlike (and I'd be remiss if I didn't also point out that, in her fitted striped cardigans and pedal-pusher jeans, she also has a pretty nice rack)." |
Finally, an animated movie both parents and children can truly enjoy.
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Carina Chocano,
L.A. Times |
Lagerfeld Confidential |
"Seinfeld had been approached often in past years to voice animated characters and waited until he was able to work on a project that he could really get behind, or so the story goes." |
Somehow it seems unlikely Seinfeld passed up opportunities to be in Madagascar or Antz.
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