One gets the sense that Lee’s work is being used here as an explicative tool for theoretical engagement and not the other way around.
Okay, so audiences still aren’t ready for De Palma’s operatic visual sensibilities, but surely critics must be on board by now, right?
I say this with love: My father is a master of rhetoric. He is a master of rhetoric without, by his own admission, ever having mastered anything to do with rhetoric.
While Short Circuit 2 may be dumb, there’s no slickness or meanness to its stupidity.