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Finishing the Game.

Finishing the Game.
This "extended audition sequence for the new Bruce Lee" is "a terrific idea still waiting to be fashioned into a real movie," writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times.

"Finishing the Game's observations about the unflattering celluloid therapy of Asians can be summed up by a greedy studio head's (Sam Bottoms) 'They all look alike" slander,' writes Nick Schager at Slant. "If its critique sometimes lacks grace, it's nonetheless bolstered by a shrewd understanding of the way pop culture exploits minority differences for entertainment purposes as well as co-opts rebellion against such therapy., all while capturing the means by which minorities unwittingly, deleteriously perpetuate stereotypes through self-deception."

Updated through 10/8.



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