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The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)
Hughes handled this theme in a more self-congratulatory and heavy-handed way in The Breakfast Club (1985).
The paper contains much more in this self-congratulatory vein.
A self-congratulatory seven-page spread celebrates the Talk launch party: "In the distance, beneath Madame Liberty, feline Kate Moss, fearsome Robert De Niro, bronze-bodied Pierce Brosnan."
The real war in Kosovo is featured inside, as it is in Newsweek . Time berates NATO for its self-congratulatory and ill-timed birthday celebrations.