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Rex Taylor Reed (born October 2, 1938) is an American film critic, journalist, and media personality.. Raised throughout the southern United States and educated at Louisiana State University, Reed moved to New York City in the early 1960s to begin his career, writing about popular culture, art, and celebrities for a number of newspapers and magazines.
The New York Observer was a weekly newspaper established in 1987. In 2016, it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper Observer . [ 6 ] The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries.
Frank Nugent (The New York Times) Mario Nuzzolese (Corriere della Sera) Robert Osborne; Geoff Pevere (CBC Radio, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail) Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) Margaret Pomeranz (At the Movies) Dilys Powell (The Sunday Times) Vasiraju Prakasam (Vaartha) Nathan Rabin (The A.V. Club) Rex Reed (New York Observer) B. Ruby Rich ...
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Rex Reed wrote in The New York Observer that "From ... a dazzling display of perfect performances, to the complex emotional relationships that result in guilt by association, the disparate elements in The Company You Keep are robustly collated by the keen, well-crafted direction of a master filmmaker at the top of his form." [23]
Rex Reed of The New York Observer was critical of the film, and described Soderbergh as an overrated director. Reed complained that the film takes a slower pace than Ocean's Eleven, and although he praised the camera work, music and ham acting, he concluded: "It doesn't work. Logan Lucky is as charming and welcome as toenail fungus." [34]
The film's critical reception was reasonably favorable, particularly for Taylor, who was nominated for a Golden Globe. Rex Reed's review in The New York Observer amounted to a love letter to Taylor: "She's subtle, sensitive, glowing with freshness and beauty, fifty pounds lighter in weight, her hair is coiffed simply, her clothes ravishing, her make-up a symphony of perfection.
The New York Observer's Rex Reed wrote: "...holding her own corner of the stage in every scene is Melissa van der Schyff, a knockout belter...she plays the sympathetic and pivotal role of Blanche Barrow, the wife of Clyde's brother Buck and a woman who sacrifices her ideals and self-respect for love...she stops the show as a kind of operatic ...