It’s also among the perviest movies ever made - although by spelling out why, I fear I’ll only make some people want to see it more. So how does that jailbreak go? Well, here’s the second paragraph of the review: The movie features “three starlets from the Disney entertainment megaverse” (Venessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Selena Gomez), and Edelstein says that all three “are obviously there as a gesture of defiance - an attempt to free themselves from their Mouse patriarch overlord and the shackles of corporate teen celebrity.” In the review, Edelstein bravely plunges into the shark-infested waters of feminist politics, by painting the movie Spring Breakers as a textbook example of pervy middle-aged men co-opting feminist liberation. I like David Edelstein’s film reviews so much that I read them even for movies I know I will never watch, which is why I ended up reading his review of Spring Breakers in the first place. ![]() ![]() Film critic David Edelstein, whom I am about to drag into gender politics whether he likes it or not.
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