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1988 |
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DRAMA
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US |
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C |
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| Length: |
133 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | Rain Man is Dustin Hoffman humping one note on a piano for two hours and eleven minutes. It's his dream role... Autistic means self-involved, and Raymond is withdrawn in his world of obsessive rituals. So Hoffman doesn't have to play off anybody; he gets to act all by himself...This whole picture is Hoffman's stunt. It's an acting exercise - working out minuscule variations on his one note. It's no more than an exercise, because Hoffman doesn't challenge us: we're given no reason to change our attitude toward Raymond; we have the same view of him from the beginning of the movie to the end... And Cruise as a slimeball is just a sugarpuss in Italian tailoring. He doesn't even use his body in an expressive way. His performance here consists of not smiling too much - so as not to distract his fans from watching Hoffman. (this could be called "restraint") Cruise is an actor in the same sense that Robert Taylor was an actor. He's patented: his knowing that a camera is on him produces nothing but fraudulence... Autism here is a dramatic gimmick that gives an offbeat tone to a conventional buddy movie.... And the picture has its effectiveness: people are crying at it. Of course they're crying at it - it's a piece of wet kitsch. | | | | (Pauline Kael, New Yorker) | | A sentimental contrivance, a buddies-on-the-road movie with yet another pair of opposites fumbling their way toward affection... The script is so blah that it seems almost paint-by-numbers... He [Hoffman] certainly gets points for weirdness, but watching Hoffman bleat and stare into the void and gesture like R2D2, you might wish his stunt had come to more. | | | | (David Edelstein, New York Post) |
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, Tom Cruise 
