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Media Elite Don't Get "Rendition"
Friday, October 26, 2007 : Rendition, the gripping new movie by award-winning South African director Gavin Hood, is suffering the fate of many good political films -- damned by faint praise. The Los Angeles Times calls Rendition "a pat and generic, if serviceable, political thriller." The New York Times calls the film "clumsy," an odd word from the nation's newspaper of record, which helped sell us the war in Iraq, and shepherds along every liberty-killing move of the post-9/11 regime.
Friday, October 26, 2007 : Rendition, the gripping new movie by award-winning South African director Gavin Hood, is suffering the fate of many good political films -- damned by faint praise. The Los Angeles Times calls Rendition "a pat and generic, if serviceable, political thriller." The New York Times calls the film "clumsy," an odd word from the nation's newspaper of record, which helped sell us the war in Iraq, and shepherds along every liberty-killing move of the post-9/11 regime.
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