New York Times ad for "Life on the Edge" on the first day of its week-long New York City run, June 19, 1992. No one is credited for the blurb. In 2016, I began a column on this blog called "New York Times Slights," in honor of filmmakers who were fortunate enough to see their …
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I had never heard of "The Game," a political drama made by two of Spike Lee's former business partners/friends, until I stumbled upon the negative review by the notoriously dry New York Times critic Vincent Canby, from April 1990. That month, the film, which wrapped in 1987, hit New York City's Criterion Center theater, having …
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