Reuters - Confession time: I love Steven Spielberg's screen adaptation of "The Color Purple," but I can't defend it. The music, the cinematography, the performances, and everything else about it has been painstakingly designed to manipulate an emotional response, and even though I can see the strings, I fall for it every time.
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Movies Review: Spielberg's "War Horse" is manipulative, hollow
(Reuters)
Movies Review: Spielberg's "War Horse" is manipulative, hollow
(Reuters)
