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Critics insist on comparing a director's apples, (i.e. Melvin and Howard) to a director's oranges ( i.e. Silence of the Lambs) as matter of professional privilege, I guess. But when Stephanie dismisses Silence of the Lambs as a "stiff exercise," she's begging to have her critic cred questioned. You can take the Michael Medved Moral Majority approach and claim that this very supple film debases human existence, but "stiff" suggests an aesthetic problem with Silence of the Lambs that I doubt the estimable Ms. Z. could support beyond this cheap cocktail chatter put-down.
Silence of the Lambs is a "stiff exercise"?
But Ms. Zacharek has her head up her ass if she believes that BOTH "Philadelphia" and "Silence of the Lambs" are "stiff excercises."
I'm not saying they're classics, but they're far from "stiff excercises."
In keeping with the ultra-hip, edgy, alternative ethos of the rest of the site, any movie that was considered a critical success by a majority of mainstream movie critics is, by definition, bad.
..is "Something Wild."
lovely to see the tolerance here. So, there are certain films that MUST be praised. You people want ayatollahs, not critics.
