Review of War of the Worlds (2005) by Geoffrey O'brien for The New York Review of Books — 20 Aug 2018
On one hand the movie is a game, a conscious display... of Spielberg's technical mastery; on the other it reaches toward what might be prophecy, or passionate allegory, or exhortation to mindfulness of real human suffering.
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This review of War of the Worlds (2005) was written by Geoffrey O'brien and published by The New York Review of Books on 20 August 2018.
War of the Worlds has generally received positive reviews.
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