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"A happy exception to the rule that any movie with 'sex' in the title must be mediocre" (Andrew Sarris, the New York Observer ). A precocious 16-year-old, played by Christina Ricci--"Lolita's evil twin" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times )--runs off with her gay brother's lover.
The auteur theory was quickly challenged, most notably by Pauline Kael, who shredded Sarris in the pages of Film Quarterly . But the "new Hollywood" of the '70s--with Kael as its champion, scold, and Cassandra--was dominated by young directors who attained, thanks to the collapse of the old studios, an unprecedented degree of creative autonomy, and who thought of themselves as artists.
"One feels great risks were not taken, which is unusual for even the worst Altman films," says the New York Observer 's Andrew Sarris.
He wielded immense power, but who recalls a single thing he wrote today, especially compared with the memorable work of James Agee or Andrew Sarris or, above all, Pauline Kael?