villagevoice.com - 5/23/2008
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Here's your hat, Indy, but, really, what's your hurry? Because 19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn't, and 15 years after the old man joined Young Indiana Jones on the small screen to recount his glory days blowing horns with Sidney Bechet, it's almost unfathomable that this hoary mishmash is the best that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could cough up. Have we learned nothing ...
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Friday Night At The Movies: Up And Down On 'Indy'
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... Indy loathe from Village Voice's Robert Wilonsky: "It's hard to tell whether Spielberg and Lucas are trying too hard or trying at all--the thing's such a mess, such an unmitigated disaster, that damned is the scholar stuck with the unfortunate task of deciphering this cynical, clinical gibberish in decades to come." ...
Weekend Movie Forecast: Indiana Jones or War Inc.
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... ,” to “it's almost unfathomable that this hoary mishmash is the best that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could cough up.” ...
50 Flaws of Indy IV
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... described him as “one idiot.” There were actually 3 reviews, David. Try to keep up. The thing is, ShogunMaster was right. All of his complaints about lack of tension were spot on and echoed by many other top critics, like Robert Wilonsky, ...
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