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Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."
It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
Vin Diesel's loping charisma made me sad to see him blown away so early, and Barry Pepper gives a stock part--the sniper who prays fervently before he kills--a monomaniac concentration.
"I was sad when I couldn't go to the snack bar to buy a soda.
It's certainly more entertaining than anything in Primary Colors . In the film's first scene, Nichols holds for a long time on a black man telling the sad story of his illiteracy--the director rubbing your face in the man's nobility.