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For the patient and intelligent viewer willing to give it a chance or for those interested in the topic at hand, this is cinematic gold-dust.

Despite flaws that in hindsight appear obvious, it's a great story and Holbrook, especially, is terrific.

Simple things like a radio suddenly switching on, a wine glass falling to the floor, or an insistent knocking at the door are an object lesson to contemporary horror’s blood-soaked tyros.

Penn’s camera loves the landscape and captures its immensity.

Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

Cliches are dropped like depth charges into the belly of the life.

Surprisingly for a cartoon aimed at pre-teens, this is about aging

At its core, this is a character study, with the contradictory American character summed up in one man.

The film’s an unashamedly full-on exercise in manipulating your emotions, giving you an event every five minutes and keeping Kleenex in business.

A morality tale where the theme of loyalty looms large, but which also skewers the materialistic Eighties and the yuppie, money-obsessed brace-wearing capitalists who dominated it.