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Though some had doubted she'd make a convincing straight woman, the Washington Post 's Rita Kempley gibes that "[s]he seems to have mastered the nuances of heterosexuality."
Robert Redford wins praise for bucking Hollywood formula and directing a movie "so chaste and so conservative, it's practically Republican" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Redford plays a cowboy who rehabilitates an injured horse and falls in love with its married owner (Kirstin Scott Thomas).
"Cheech & Chong bumbling about in Philip Marlowe's gumshoes," writes Rita Kempley of the Washington Post . The negative spin: Like other Coen films, this one is clever but rambling and undisciplined.
Critics debate the merits of the star, Gwyneth Paltrow, more than anything else in this "slender romantic comedy" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The Washington Post 's Rita Kempley calls Paltrow a "fair reminder of the young Audrey Hepburn," but Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum says her "image project[s] better in fashion-magazine stills than in motion."
Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...
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