Review of Kick-Ass (2010) by Anthony Lane for The New Yorker — 23 Mar 2015
The standard defense of such material is that we are watching “cartoon violence,” but, when filmmakers nudge a child into viewing savagery as slapstick, are we not allowing them to do what we condemn in the pornographer--that is, to coarsen and inflame?
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This review of Kick-Ass (2010) was written by Anthony Lane and published by The New Yorker on 23 Mar 2015.
Kick-Ass has generally received very positive reviews.
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