Josh Olson on ACE IN THE HOLE
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Audiences in 1951 rejected Billy Wilder's acerbic, jet-black satire, based on a real life incident, as cynical and depressing--and that it is, in spades. But today it looks positively prescient in its unrelenting portrait of a callous and sensationalistic media and a gullible, easily manipulated public. One of Wilder's best, least appreciated movies.
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