Review of Sorcerer (1977) by Clayton Dillard for Slant Magazine — 22 Sep 1988
Rather than a fleeting image of violence, however, Friedkin’s cyclical, almost Kafkaesque insistence that politics revolves around now globalized, corporate power delegating hired guns to do under-the-table bidding across national boundaries announces itself through the soundscape, with Tangerine Dream’s electronic basslines substituting for bloodshed.
No one escapes the suffocating corrosion of Sorcerer’s polysemous diegesis—not even Friedkin himself, as audiences and industry would have it.
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This review of Sorcerer (1977) was written by Clayton Dillard and published by Slant Magazine on 22 Sep 1988.
Sorcerer has generally received very positive reviews.
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