A Modern Fable About America: or, Ugly and Predictably Unconventional.
Two Stars.

The sheer horror of it all still makes my skin crawl.
Five Stars.

Ah, the halcyon days of skateboard-free punk!
This is a good documentary if you find stock footage of 1970's England amusing (and who wouldn't?). Oh, and the scene about the Christmas/Orphanage "PR Event" was fun, too.
Three Stars.

They should have titled this movie Why Ben Stiller is Better Than Ethan Hawke.
Three Stars

Not for the faint of heart.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Three Stars.

This movie is funny, depite its billing as "a hip comedy about youth gone wild."
Four Stars

P. T. Anderson's movies always traumatize me, but I keep watching them, probably becuase I've never met optimism this gleefuly sinister.
Four Stars

This is so worth a sober viewing.
Four Stars.

Like so many pop culture products of the sixties, I was completely baffled by this movie. For example, the multicultural evil-genius squad is out to ... dum dum dum ... create a utopian society, apparently based on sex! The inhumanity! And the really evil villian appears to be evil because he's -- are you ready for this -- an upper crusty Brit!
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