Reception
At the time of its release, the film received international acclaim and was embraced by America's most respected film critics:
Pauline Kael – The New Yorker
"Shoot the Moon is perhaps the most revealing American movie of the era.”
David Denby – New York Magazine
“The Picture seems like a Miracle. A Beautiful Achievement.”
David Edelstein – The New York Post
"One of the Best Films of the Decade."
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
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