Extravagant in movie terms but stingy in emotional ones, it… - Stephanie Zacharek

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Extravagant in movie terms but stingy in emotional ones, it embodies all of [director Steven] Spielberg's bad impulses and almost none of his good ones: It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.

Stephanie Zacharek

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Stephanie Zacharek (born 13. August 1963) is an American film and music critic. She is the film critic at Time magazine, based in New York City. From 2013 to 2015 she was the principal film critic for The Village Voice.

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