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Based on a short story by Isaac Asimov, the film follows an android that slowly gains human qualities and ends up as "a cornball drone of greeting-card sentiment" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The beginning scenes--when Williams plays a non-human--are the film's highpoint: "[T]he sad fact is Williams is at his best while trapped in [the robot's] original sleek form.
Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ) labels it "a worthy final chapter to a great director's career," and Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) raves that it's his riskiest film and "a spellbinding addition to the Kubrick canon."
Peter, to Roger Ebert, regarding his concerns about working with Tom Shales."
This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.
Which means that, to Roger Ebert, Booty Call was twice as good as Blue Velvet . And that he walked out of The Usual Suspects saying, "It was good, but it was no Dances With Wolves ."
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