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In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls "a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch."
since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."
Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."
This last idea is, in fact, rather weirdly prominent in the work of both Merkin and Harrison.
The screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."