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Better yet, Norton gives Derek a mind as keen as it is caustic.
American satire rarely comes more winning than Election , an exuberantly caustic comedy that shows the symbiotic relationship between political go-get-'em-ism and moral backsliding.
The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."
The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).
Seizing on Fielding's allusions to Pride and Prejudice , critics declare Diary an Austenlike comedy of manners that captures the Zeitgeist . They praise the protagonist's caustic humor for providing an antidote to her "perfectly coiffed ...