By Trust Created | Summary | Acting | Film | Edge | Reality |
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TRUST WEIGHTED | OK | Good | OK | Sordid | Glib |
AVERAGE | OK | Good | OK | Sordid | Glib |
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OK
2.5
More an oddball curiosity than a successful movie, The Long Goodbye dropped a Forties private-eye story into the Seve… |
Good
3.0
Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe becomes tiresome, his wisecracks barely funny, his constant lighting of cigarettes a ted… |
OK
2.5
Robert Altman's retro juxtaposition with Me Decade L.A. doesn't work, though perhaps it played better when his fans wer… |
Sordid
2.9
The Long Goodbye is sickly misogynistic, though that must have felt subversive to Altman and crew in 1973. No this do… |
Glib
1.5
Altman was the king of acid-inspired satire, for instance by having his hero surreally ignore the girls next door, who … |