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These attract bigger audiences than do current local offerings, which seem tawdry and unoriginal after the towering creativity of giants like Kurosawa and Oshima.
Shocker: Critics say it's trite and unoriginal (it follows a boy with a demonically possessed hand).
dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.
The paper also ran a short and unoriginal comment on the dilemmas facing Al Gore as he comes daily closer to fulfilling his presidential ambitions.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes in the New York Times that the book is "impressive if somewhat pious" but finds Purdy's points unoriginal: "He labors at length such crashingly obvious ideas as the ethical ambiguities of technology."