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Film Critic Quote of the Week

The New York Post's Lou Lumenick on "This Is It":

Neither a concert film nor a documentary but a ghoulish “event” offered just in time for Halloween... This Is It” was hastily cobbled together from often badly photographed and recorded rehearsal footage never intended to be shown to an audience, hokey backstage scenes that were, and elaborate 3-D sequences that were shot for use in the concerts

I saw this last night and am flabbergasted by the positive critical reaction- it's a creepy, not to mention nakedly exploitative cash grab, based around someone who was, literally, days from death.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 28, 2009 05:31 PM