A Rarity

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2010)

There are so few films that qualify as revelatory over repeated viewings (yeesh, this sounds like a snob piece straight out of the New Yorker). I can add nothing to the nearly unanimous kudos of the previous reviews except to note that Amadeus is one of those rare films that allow the medium to be called an art form. It's enormously entertaining (Foreman & Co. deserve credit for making gross historical inaccuracies so excusable) and deservedly earned it's 8 Oscars. Personally I would rate it alongside The Godfather (and II), Chinatown, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Best Years of Our Lives and Fargo as meeting my standard against which everything else is measured. In a world that gave us Porky's 2 and made Will Farrell a star, projects like this are still capable of being made. Incredible entertainment! ****************************************** out of 5.