lovely example of refined savagery. “No-No-Manohla” ha!
http://www.moviesintofilm.com/enduringlove.htm
I don’t see much “critiquing”–just calling assorted people “grossly ignorant”, “ignorant hipsters”, “institutional dispensers of middle class platitudes” who don’t happen to agree that the film is brilliant. No argument re: the opposing viewpoints, just name-calling.
The fact that he thinks Vertigo is Hitchcock’s masterpiece is telling enough, then he adds that Wong Kar-Wai and Hou Hsiao-Hsien are overrated bores. Yawn. Pretentious, pseudo-intellectual rebel-chic. Like an NYU student wearing a black turtleneck and ranting about the establishment.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the “adulated” films Polar Express and I Heart Huckabees got 57% and 61% positive reviews respectively while the supposedly excoriated Enduring Love drew 55% approval.
If he can’t even get the critics reactions right, why should I trust his opinions on those films?