Example sentences for: amistad

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  • "In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."

  • "[T]oo much of Amistad feels as if it's been lifted from the lore and language of movies rather than life," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.

  • A motion to block the opening of Amistad was shot down by a U.S.

  • An accompanying review raves about Amistad (though the magazine inexplicably calls it "controversial").

  • An indignant Barbara Chase-Riboud filed a $10 million copyright-infringement suit against Steven Spielberg and the makers of Amistad in October, claiming that the movie contained characters and scenes unique to her historical novel about the slave rebellion.


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