 The horror thriller Gothika, starring Halle Berry, is also getting royally trashed by most critics today. But Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times pays it this left-handed compliment: "The sainted [former New York Times critic] Pauline Kael taught us: The movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we might as well stop going. I don't know if she would have defined Gothika as great trash, but in trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory." Best critical quote: "Never has death seemed so lifeless" (the heading of Ann Hornaday's review of Gothika in the Washington Post.) |
