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"The American" was taut and very good, but then...

From Ken Holmes:

Roger, I appreciated your review. I know what you wrote about the wrong person saying, "my butterfly"; I noted it when it happened but I lost it almost immediately. Still, it reminded me of the silent, momentary close up of the tattooed arm in "Harold and Maude." I notice "The Conversation" mentioned on your site with relation to DVD's. I thought of that movie as I watched "The American" and I thought of "Sonatine"; they are not the same but I was reminded of them. Of "The American" I say, it was taut, it was very good, it was going somewhere and then it had a stroke or something (or maybe I did).

I know we always suspend something to get into the story, but the complete lack of law enforcement was notable.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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