In Robert Redford’s new film, The Company You Keep, not yet nationally released, a group of former leftist terrorists are apparently portrayed as heroes who were just trying to make their country a better place. Reviewer Rex Reed of the New York Observer says that the film presents “earnest insight into the validity of the noble but misdirected romantic idealism of the ‘70s radicals.” The Hollywood Reporter review similarly fetes 1970s terrorists: the movie, says the Reporter, “provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent.” But as Christian Toto of Big Hollywood writes, “Movie goers may not be so forgiving, what with the fresh images of bloodshed in Boston still on their minds.”…To Read More…..
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