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The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.
He notes that Chinese painters mastered verisimilitude early on--by the 10 th or 11 th century--and spent the next few centuries developing Expressionist departures from it.
And it's probably unsporting to take a movie like Face/Off to task for issues of verisimilitude.
One of four new law-and-crime dramas set in New York, this one--starring NYPD Blue 's David Caruso--wins praise as "a smartly conceived genre piece" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Writer-producer Nicholas Pileggi ( GoodFellas ) gets credit for the show's verisimilitude.
The wealth of verbatim quotations--constituting a good third of this book--also enhances Burn Rate 's verisimilitude.