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Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).
Instead, Madame Secretary proves to be down with the Zeitgeist, providing the latest evidence of the plummeting public image of the film's writer-director, Jim Cameron.
The leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles, are "scrubbed, wholesome and bland," while the writer-director Kris Isacsson "flees from anything that might involve real human emotion, or for that matter any credible human activity other than looking good" (A.O.
What holds it all together is the writer-director's fervid conviction.
Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.
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