Carnal Knowledge

“When I was a child,” film reviewer Stephen Whitty wrote in “What Happened to Grown-Up Films?” for New Jersey’s state paper, The Star-Ledger, on the day of the Oscars, “most of the big hits in movie theaters were aimed at adults. Now that I’m an adult, most of the big hits in movie theaters are …

Throughout January, SOS writers will be biting the bullet and finally sitting down with a film they feel like bad film buffs for not having seen already. Carnal Knowledge Directed by Mike Nichols United States, 1971 If you start with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate it becomes easier to forget “lesser” films, …