Going Positive

Via Marmot: Salon's film critic Stephanie Zacharek has chosen Oldboy as among her best films of the year. Her original review was not just positive, it was ecstatic. It's worth reading, especially in light of the post below. Might it be more difficult to pen such a long, sustained argument in praise of a film than to pan it at equal length? After seeing Oldboy myself, I searched out the review and read much of it aloud to Kate. We kept expecting Zacharek to turn negative at some point, to mention something, anything, that she didn't like about the movie. Our expectations created a kind of tension as we kept reading & reading (the review is 2,000 words), but also a kind of exhilaration. Could any movie be that good? Maybe Oldboy's that good!