Several people I know feel the way I do: Miles David Moore's movie reviews are the best around. I remember his review of Polanski's "Ghost Writer" as if I had read it yesterday (well, I also agreed with every word in it). As for "Biutiful", I have not seen the film but read half a dozen reviews (including the New Yorker) trying to decide if it would be worth a one-hour drive to see it. I could not tell. Nothing in these reviews stirred my imagination. Switch to Scene4 and Miles David Moore, where the psychologically thoughtful, elegant writing instantly takes me into a visual, sensual "experience" of the film and connects me. I am told what that experience was like from the "inside", filtered through a critical perspective. There is enough information on every level to keep me reading with interest -- and make up my mind.
Renate Stendhal
