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Most agree that this "dismayingly schlocky and literal-minded thriller" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) is leavened only by a fine performance by Annette Bening as a woman plagued by the dreams of a serial killer.
The opinion that conspiracy and show business rule Washington exists in tension with an older, literal-minded Hollywood liberalism.
And where a literal-minded parodist might have bound the narrative to Dickens and his doings, Carey gives the novel and its themes a full life outside them.
The trick, of course, is not to get too literal-minded.
The literal-minded among us have fastened on the inaccuracy of the retained word dial for what many now have on telephones.