An unassuming craftsman who sublimated his ego to the demands of the subject matter and genre at hand, Reiner was nevertheless a deeply personal filmmaker. Like Howard Hawks, John Ford, and other masters of the classical studio era, his style was often invisible, but his modesty cloaked the intense engagement of a true artist.
Reiner was one of those filmmakers who was weirdly both widely celebrated and a bit underrated — he made what he did look too easy to be ranked with the greats when people who do such things were doing the ranking.
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