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Critical Essay by Roger Angell
In "American Gigolo," Julian Kay (Richard Gere) skims around the Southern California freeways in a shiny black Mercedes 450-SL convertible, often with the ...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris
[American Gigolo is] the most elegant of Schrader's directorial exercises, and there are never any lapses of tone. What's lacking, as always, are narrativ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
With American Gigolo, Paul Schrader seems to have found his footing as a director—and achieved a measure of distance from (might one say transcended?) his obsess...
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Critical Essay by Roger Angell
