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The film is "simpatico enough to make the less-than-cutting-edge nature" of the work enjoyable (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ), but "it's unfortunate that what we are given is so standardized and generic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to read a review of the best-selling novel by Mona Simpson the film is based on and to read Slate 's "Chatterbox" on a real-life character from the book.)
It "plays like a dead battery disguised as an objet d'art " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). They are especially irked by the movie's artsy pretensions (Pip is turned into a tortured painter) and earnestness (its un-Dickensian fulminations about undying love), as well as flat performances by Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
“There are no vascular functional data,” says Carr, “or clinical vascular endpoint data that confirm that the statistically significant lipid differences observed are clinically significant.”
It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
--unfurled like a white flag, pacific civilian Switzerland--the miraculous neutrality of it, the non-combatant impartiality of it, the non-aggression pacts of it, the international red cross of it--entente to the left, détente to the right, into the valley of the invalided blundered and wandered myself when young--Carr of the Consulate!"
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