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The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says it's akin to "a great nineteenth-century novel that presumes on its reader's infinite patience."
since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."
In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."
The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin says the film "underrates our intelligence."
Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."