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Reviewers say the film, a "conventional techno-thiller" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ), lacks its predecessors' tongue-in-cheek charm, and they insist it's time to retire the Bond franchise.
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which relocates King Lear on an Iowa farm, has been adapted into "an ungainly, undigested assembly of 'women's issues' " (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Critics call its screenplay soap-operatic: The Lear figure (Jason Robards) molests his daughters (Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh), who babble in lengthy pop-psych disquisitions.
-- Roger Ebert
For Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ), it's a "well-made thriller with a lot of good acting" but is "so unnecessarily graphic and gruesome that by the end I felt sort of unclean."
Albert Brooks' new film--which he directed, co-wrote, and stars in--is "good but not great Brooks" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The plot: A screenwriter (Brooks) has lost his edge, and he enlists the aid of a muse (Sharon Stone) to inspire him.