Going Wrong
Michael Wood
- Casino directed by Martin Scorsese
- Heat directed by Michael Mann
- Seven directed by David Fincher
It’s always risky to think of films as signs of the times, when they are mainly signs of what someone thought would sell. It’s particularly risky when the films manifestly see themselves as signs of the times, heavy-breathing comments on the way we live now. These three new thrillers are all worth watching, but they are a little over-ripe, and they make you feel you might have got the wrong door, and gone to church instead of the movies.
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Vol. 18 No. 5 · 7 March 1996 » Michael Wood » Going Wrong
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