Reactionary nonsense. It can be VERY impressive formally but it's ideas are so simplistic and for all the wrong reasons..it should have been a straight-genre picture, but these kinds of generational/current events films are never trustworthy. Politics for people who don't think about it. Politics for people who don't read books. It's basic premise is a slightly idiotic contradiction: communism + genre, yet genre only exists because of the marketplace..

Still - maybe I'm being a bit too harsh: the…

Some of the readings on this film by.....certain contemporary critics are so wildly misguided and prone to misinterpretation it's absurd - this is not a dialectical work, Godard was never any good at Brechtianisms. Rather, we see the beginnings here of his late style: total didactic turned into moving poetry. This brings on a remarkable contradiction - this super-didacticism gives us Godard at his coldest, yet finds in this record of collective responses, Godard the dreamer. La Chinoise is about…

"No-one's ever gotten this close before."

I was going to write that this is the most adventurous film made in Hollywood since Heaven's Gate, but what is that compared to calling it Mann's best movie? It's both a culmination and expansion of hundreds of ideas Mann has toyed with since Thief. But there's something new here: this is a movie about collectives, not individuals, and the most beautiful thing about this movie is watching these characters learn to respect, trust…

This is like, some kind of weird, conservative fantasy. If watching this served any good purpose, it's a possibly vital reminder that the Clinton era was not as progressive as many of us might like to remember - the latter half of the 20th century in America through the eyes of a reactionary, nearly 50 years of social tumult regarded as just a brief phase of unrest before everything returns to 'normal,' - the Vietnam War, Black Panthers, and social…