If it turned out to be Steven Spielberg's last film, it would make for a grand and fitting final curtain call for his brand of escapism. But since he's following it up with, among other things, yet another Indiana Jones installment, it feels onanistic, the synthesis of a novelist's own cloistered view of pop culture with the cinematic vocabulary of a filmmaker largely viewed as responsible for ossifying said culture.
Eric Henderson
maart 27, 2018