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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 12:00 AM

"World Trade Center"

Oliver Stone tackles the most harrowing shared experience of our lives -- and it's not the disaster you would expect.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:08 AM

    the reviewer as disaster

    And no one has yet answered the question, for me, at least, of why we should need or want pseudo-reviewers who ask why we should need or want - just yet - movies about 21st Century Atrocities: Act I.

    Just yet?

    Should we wait a generation and a half, suppress and withhold - as for example Nazi documentation this week released - this week! - and ban 9/11 films?

    When a critic wonders why the subject of her criticism is needed or wanted, she should just shut the fuck up and pass the job on to someone who understands.

    Give us information or give us death.

    —A Bear

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