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Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.
Those who like it say it's "a sweet, funny little movie" (Ansen, Newsweek ) and that "one finds oneself asking how such familiar material breeds contentment instead of contempt" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics also note that two great performances, by Shawn Hatosy as the kid and Alec Baldwin as his gruff dad, help lift the film above cliché.
What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.
Billed as the first feature film by Native Americans, this picaresque tale wins reviewers' admiration for being "palpably authentic" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics like the story, about a young man and his friend who set out to retrieve his father's ashes, for eschewing "the high seriousness and dubious mysticism" of most films about the Indians' plight (John Anderson, Newsday ). Although everyone enjoys its wry humor and cutting observations about life on the reservation, a few say its aimless plot betrays its makers' inexperience.
In an age when Ronald Reagan has slipped into the haze of Alzheimer's disease, when Susan Faludi writes movingly of males clinging to stereotypical notions of machismo as they're laid off their factory jobs and symbolically robbed of potency, it can put a lump in your throat to watch Schickel building--like the hero in Field of Dreams --a shrine to the Dad whom so many elements of the culture have come to undervalue.
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