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Hugely entertaining, full of surprises, critical of its subject but never lacking in humanity, this is a real epic of small lives.

Despite its sensational subject matter, Boogie Nights is anything but an exploitation film. It's a brilliantly candid study of the corrupting power of the American Dream and of the moral deterioration that is a byproduct of social upheaval.

No, it's not real, it's a prosthesis. That said, the most salient feature of the often hilarious and oddly affecting Boogie Nights is how emotionally realistic is its period portrait of a close-knit group porn film makers.

Boogie Nights is a big, bold movie not just because it embraces nearly a decade's worth of human drama, but because it is a wildly, belligerently cinematic creation.

Much of Boogie Nights is funny and touching, and even rather sweet. It's a good but not great movie -- a movie conceived realistically, without falsifying glamour, but without great insight or excitement either.