Review of Slap Shot (1977) by Richard Schickel for Time — 23 Jan 1992
There is nothing in the history of movies to compare with Slap Shot for consistent, low-level obscenity of expression...Its problem is an ending that abruptly transports the audience from heightened realism to broad satire.
It is a defect that Slap Shot shares with the current hit Network—a desire to present an editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve.
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This review of Slap Shot (1977) was written by Richard Schickel and published by Time on 23 Jan 1992.
Slap Shot has generally received very positive reviews.
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