Critical Essay by Vincent Canby
"O Lucky Man!" clearly has a number of things on its mind, but as a movie, it is a very mixed bag.
Because Mr. Anderson is much more bold and free as a di...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
O Lucky Man! is so much the worst of [Anderson's three features] that it seems twisted by rancor—pickled in Anderson's bile because he wasn...
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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter
[If] O Lucky Man! is a celebration of success, it is of success in a bad world, a world in which, as the sophomoric cynicism of the song lyrics has it, "onl...
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