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...quite "an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment without straining, pandering or preaching," as the Times' Tony Scott opined (in, I have to add, a brilliantly written review). Nor can I agree with the declaration of my friend Richard Schickel, here on TIME.com, that "Apatow, represents, for the moment at least, the best in American movie comedy ... a throwback to the kind of screenwriters who created the classic romantic comedies of the 1930s...
Never have I felt so in tune with a critic as I did while reading Richard Schickel's review of the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie [June 4]. He was right that you can't follow the story while wide awake but that sleeping is out of the question because the movie is too noisy. I had no idea what the characters were doing but I loved watching them do it. My husband said if they make another one, it will be about the fountain of youth. I responded, "Oh, Lord, you mean they might make another...
...only people who were confused about the ending were the ones who didn't pay attention. The director put all the key points right in front of the audience, so it wasn't hard to see how and why everything worked out the way it did. I suggest Schickel watch the movie again...
...Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship Troopers and sexually controversial pictures like Basic Instinct, before the resounding failure of Showgirls nearly drove him out of the business. He talked to TIME's Richard Schickel about his new film and the wild ride that brought...
...colleague, film critic Richard Schickel, has observed that Gibson has little use for the institutional Roman Catholic church, preferring a "less mainstream version of his faith." True, but the Traditionalists with whom Gibson is often associated are defined primarily by their objections to the liberalizations under the Second Vatican Council of 1962-5 - not an issue in Jaguar...