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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
[The Sting] is intended to form the basis for "pure entertainment," but Hill, Redford and Newman's idea of a fun picture is to skirt any form of moral...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
About an hour into The Sting I began to understand it. Not the plot, which is clear enough, but the raison d'être. This Paul Newman-Robert Redford veh...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The Sting works endearingly without a single hitch. George Roy Hill's film concerns conmanship in Chicago in the thirties, and the exploits of a few independent con...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
