Review of 52 Pick-Up (1986) by Paul Attanasio for Washington Post — 25 Jun 1990
John Frankenheimer has directed 52 Pick-Up in a style so devoid of nuance, the movie almost watches itself. From the crosscutting between Scheider and Ann-Margret that opens the film (an exchange of glances so portentous you think an earthquake is about to hit Los Angeles) to the way every emotion is underlined with tight close-ups, 52 Pick-Up is so aggressively explicit that it might have been made for an audience of trained apes.
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This review of 52 Pick-Up (1986) was written by Paul Attanasio and published by Washington Post on 25 June 1990.
52 Pick-Up has generally received mixed reviews.
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