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Robert Redford wins praise for bucking Hollywood formula and directing a movie "so chaste and so conservative, it's practically Republican" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Redford plays a cowboy who rehabilitates an injured horse and falls in love with its married owner (Kirstin Scott Thomas).
"A narrative as obtuse as a tax form" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Others praise its stylish, dark colors; terse dialogue; and self-referential humor.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
"Cheech & Chong bumbling about in Philip Marlowe's gumshoes," writes Rita Kempley of the Washington Post . The negative spin: Like other Coen films, this one is clever but rambling and undisciplined.
But his performance is pure Kramer, "a hipster doofus just the same" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Even British director Jonathan Lynn is forgiven for indulging in the same lawyer jokes and romantic-comedy subplots he used in My Cousin Vinny . (Click here for the Trial and Error site.)
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