filmcritic http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/966/all en NYT Film Critic Likes 'Old Fashioned Orgy,' Pans G-Rated 'Seven Days in Utopia' http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nyt-film-critic-likes-old-fashioned-orgy-pans-g-rated-seven-days-utopia <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> In the September 2 &quot;Weekend Arts&quot; section, Times film critic Stephen Holden hailed an R-rated flick about friends hosting an orgy as a &quot;friendly, ramshackle comedy&quot; while panning a G-rated drama about a young golfer&#039;s mentorship as a &quot;stultifying hybrid of instruction film and Christian sermon&quot; that &quot;swoons into its own solemn sanctimony.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/ken-shepherd">Ken Shepherd</a> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <div style="float: right;"><img src="http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/uploads/oldfashionedorgy.JPG" border="0" width="196" height="199" /></div> <p>An R-rated flick about a bunch of friends having an orgy gets hailed in today's Weekend Arts section as a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" albeit "somewhat laugh-deficient" while a G-rated drama about a young golfer being mentored by a retired pro is panned as a "stultifying hybrid of instruction film and Christian sermon" that "swoons into its own solemn sanctimony."</p> <p> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/nyt-film-critic-likes-old-fashioned-orgy-pans-g-rated-seven-days-utopia" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch filmcritic golf liberalmediabias moviereview NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias orgy StephenHolden TimesWatch Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:26:00 +0000 admin 510 at http://archive2.mrc.org