I can see right now where the Shutter Island discussion will go. Hip, older urban critics like Marshall Fine will do the usual solidarity thing (i.e., their standard response whenever a reasonably decent film by a venerated director comes out) and pass out “Friends of Marty” buttons at screenings and so on. And that’s fine. A fair portion of their readers, of course, will feel a wee bit puzzled if not burned when they shell out their twelve bucks, but that’s the rough and tumble of it.

February 15, 2010by Jeffrey Wells74 Comments