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75One possible approach to 8 1/2 Women, I think, is to view it as a slowed-down, mannered, tongue-in-cheek silent comedy, skewed by Greenaway's anger and desire to manipulate.
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42Keeps teasing you with intimations of the libidinous animal within.
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40Though his film is breathtakingly art-directed, Greenaway wallows in epater le bourgeois nastiness -- his inner naughty child could use a good paddling.
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75This visually intricate fantasia combines his (Greenaway's) extraordinary cinematic imagination with a story and characters less compelling than those in his best works.
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40Its message is quite simple and all too familiar: when it comes to sex, all men are little boys.
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20Intentionally defies categorization and explication.
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258 1/2 Women is a collage-y, self-reflexive sort of film that is designed to shock but more often just annoys.
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50A nod to Fellini--and that "half" turns out to be a typically dark Greenaway twist. Yet this film, one of Greenaway's most amusing and accessible, actually arrives at moments of tenderness, even love, fleeting though they may be.
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40(Greenaway) is often described as a director whose movies "are not for everyone." The obvious retort is that neither are the Three Stooges, but at least everyone understands them.
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75Never dull visually, but it's certainly monomaniacal and heartless thematically.
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63Seethes with cruel lust and brainy fancy.
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50Some viewers may find this movie sexist or misogynist simply based on its premise, but it's a mistake to take Greenaway's symbolic narratives too literally.
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63The problem with 8 1/2 Women isn't that what you see is what you get; it's that what you see is all you get.
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38Greenaway's film is about making people's jaws drop.
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12More prettily photographed pretentious rubbish from the ridiculous Peter Greenaway.
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20Writer-director Peter Greenaway never uses narrative lightly...references to the act of filmmaking exhaust their impact pretty quickly.
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10The deeply ridiculous 8 1/2 Women could have been made only by a cranky dotard.
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75A surreal comedy about sex that comes as close to charming as Greenaway ever gets.
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70It may be his (Greenaway's) breeziest and kindest-hearted effort to date.
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16Greenaway has hit a brick wall, and it's no fun to watch.
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50As powerfully as the film lingers in the mind, one can't help wishing he were led just a bit more by his heart.
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25It's downright boring.
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20This anti-narrative screwball comedy, a sort of police-drama re-enactment of Fellini's themes in "8 1/2," keeps most of the jokes off-screen.
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0Inert, unfunny, and not even interesting as a dirty movie, 8 1/2 Women could well rank as one of the worst films of the year.
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63With its convoluted pretentiousness, heavy use of metaphors and obscure references to art, fails to maintain interest.