Frank Rich’s column is about the assinine controversy surrounding Million Dollar Baby. Along the way he includes this:
As Mr. Eastwood has pointed out, advance knowledge of the story’s ending did nothing to deter the audience for “The Passion of the Christ.” My own experience is that knowing the ultimate direction of “Million Dollar Baby” – an organic development that in no way resembles a plot trick like that in “The Sixth Sense” – only deepened my second viewing of it.