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Critical Essay by John Simon
If there is such a thing as a zap-and-zowie school of filmmaking, Steven Spielberg is its prime example….
From the very beginning, Spielberg's speciality was...
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Critical Essay by James Monaco
[Sugarland Express was meant to take advantage of Spielberg's] demonstrated strengths as a director of chase/road movies. It remains one of the most interesting o...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
"The Sugarland Express" is like some of the entertaining studio-factory films of the past (it's as commercial and shallow and impersonal), yet it ha...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Farber
"The Sugarland Express" is a prime example of the new-style factory movie: slick, cynical, mechanical, empty. Spielberg and his young writers, Hall Barwo...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
After Duel, Steven Spielberg's dazzling way with the cars in The Sugarland Express was almost a foregone conclusion: stately processions snaking through the countrys...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
I was not aching to see Close Encounters, especially since I had disliked the previous work of its director, Steven Spielberg. His first feature, The Sugarland Expr...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
