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[lollardfish]

I often find the New Yorker Magazine a little ahead of the curve. It's where Seymour Hirsch wrote the Abu Ghraib story. A few weeks before the recent anti-intelligent-design decision was handed down in Pennsylvania, the New Yorker wrote a long discussion of the trial (all other national news media that I read only really wrote about it after the decision was handed down). I also find that you can trust New Yorker film reviewers more than any other. Even when I don't fully agree with the reviews, I always see their point. Denby and Lane, the two reviewers, are much more film snobs than I, but I love the way they write about cinema.

With that said, here's Denby on V for Vendetta. And I see his points, though I enjoyed it immensly.

I think he did too, if you read past the first line.

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[jadiana.livejournal.com]

I was annoyed by the review, if only because of the whole 'omg, you are irresponsible making a hero out of a terrorist' thing, though these reviewers weren't as direct as many of the others I had read.