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"[T]hink of a Friday the 13 th as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Critics enjoy Craven's self-knowing winks (a film within the film spoofs the original Scream ). Some find the self-consciousness over the top.
As for censure, it would be useless, "a gob of spit attached to the presidency's reputation by a craven legislature."
This is an imaginative attempt to dress craven pragmatism as high principle, but it makes no sense.
Directors of violent genre pieces like Craven (who got this mainstream gig in return for doing the Scream sequels) or Carl Franklin or Sam Raimi sometimes want so badly to belong to Establishment Hollywood--to go to the Academy Awards--that they neuter themselves.
Most of the time, we're left to conclude, these craven, opportunistic pols will crumple, tossing aside their deeply held convictions at the slightest blandishments.