January 2010
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AVATAR: The high-tech "blueface" minstrel show
Kudos to James Cameron: through his mastery of technical filmmaking, he’s achieved a kind of movie magic, but not perhaps the kind of magic he intended. With CGI sleight-of-hand, he’s managed to bedazzle a vast number of worldwide moviegoers (and more than a few critics) with pyrotechnics so flashy that they effectively conceal the ideologically and imaginatively threadbare story at...