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Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of "father-son" talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.
The act of making choices was clearly excruciating to him; that's why the choices he made are so memorable.
After his excruciating performance in the 1996 Republican presidential campaign, Lamar Alexander should have had the grace to disappear quietly into the Tennessee backwoods.
Renee Graham of the Boston Globe calls the film "excruciating," and Berkowitz "the biggest jerk you're likely to see in a movie this year."
These were days, one historian notes, of "excruciating uncertainty."