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But the fawning often stems from a naked earnestness like Bill Bradley's.
Sam Schulman complains in the Wall Street Journal that despite the excellent material, Eisler "cannot capture" the essence of Byron's power "because her earnestness misses his seductive combination of modesty, irony, self-doubt and self-confidence."
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.
The article credits the Democratic underdog with: the 1986 Tax Reform Act, prescience regarding the American high-tech boom, earnestness, an "active social conscience," and "political individuality."
What unites all of these articles is a certain earnestness: Their authors are not joking (well, Chatterbox sort of is).