Reviewing Our Year-End Review
This has been a bad year for feminism: Anita Hill, Patricia Bowman and the dimwitted “Thelma & Louise.” The fact that Kenneth Turan has picked this muddled attempt at a road movie as his film of the year (in his heart, not his head, of course!) suggests that he’s attempting to score personal points with fringe elements of the women’s movement.
“Thelma & Louise” strands two of our finest actresses in a desert filled with cardboard cutouts. Contrary to Turan’s opinion, the movie not only preaches, it screeches.
The film’s biggest “achievement” is a dubious one: It is as one-dimensional and stupid as any of Clint Eastwood’s infantile revenge fantasies.
DAN O’NEILL
Los Angeles
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