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New York 's David Denby says it proves Leigh "digs deeper into people than any other director now working in movies."
David Denby has expressed the disappointment of a generation of critics who entered the field during the feverish, Kael-inspired '70s: Once upon a time they wanted to grab readers by the hand and lead them to passionate works of art, but no one would aim so high today.
Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).
On the positive side, most say the acting is great, and though the film "doesn't take enormous chances," it is nevertheless "extremely satisfying" (Denby, The New Yorker ). Slate 's Edelstein is more positive than most, praising the "deliciously resonant dual setting: a Catskills summer community to which middle-class Jews from the city migrate to swim and eat and play mah-jongg, and the gathering hippies at nearby Woodstock."
Denby even goes against the conventional wisdom, contending that "the Gere-Roberts connection is still alive."