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Most critics call it flat: "a homey compendium of feminist talking points laced with awkward satire" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The film's breakneck speed, mostly showing Perez being pulled in six directions at once, is "a scream--not because it's funny, but because screaming is about all anyone does" (Jack Mathews, New York Newsday ). A few enjoy the high-decibel/high-speed film, such as the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin, who says it's "a tour de force of barely controlled hysteria that's as funny as it's insightful."
It's typical of Goodman's blend of the sublime and the haimish (homey) that when Elizabeth experiences an epiphany while looking at Cole's picture, it is the revelation of a most unambitious ambition: She wants to open a kosher grocery store.
He has always borrowed from the genre, but his scary motifs were leavened with homey ones--with elements inspired by cartoons, Dr. Seuss, and tacky Japanese giant-monster flicks.
Before Martha, the many domestic arts and sciences were divided between "homey" but provincial cooking and Sears-style decorating, on the one hand, and the haute cuisine of Julia Child and decorating by Architectural Digest on the other.
Such wonderful balancing acts of literary bravura and homey friendship.