Jen returns...
It's not a brilliant film, (the plot is too heavily weighted toward Daniel Day-Lewis' overwrought performance for the work to be called brilliant) but it succeeds in making even viewers beyond tired of thinking about the trappings of greed and capitalism (read: Jen) do just that. Despite its artistic flaws, it's a film with the power to leave you changed.
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It certainly is "a brilliant film," perhaps even the year's best, perhaps even better than Atonement. This take-off on Sinclair Lewis's "Oil" is 2 hours and 40 minutes of gripping, great direction. To think of this movie as a work of political polemic instead of as a work of art is simply incongruous.
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