Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate strategy. And the lessons derived from them conveniently serve to strengthen a status quo that increasingly marginalizes risk, originality and intelligence.
A. O. ScottWe have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.
A. O. ScottTiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
A. O. ScottWar of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.
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