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The 11-year-old action franchise "begs for a mercy killing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Many critics even wax nostalgic for the psychological acumen of earlier Lethal Weapon installments.
turning every dialogue scene into a colloquy for ardent obsessives" (Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But Cusack can't sustain the freshness of the original idea: The film "isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ).
Those in favor call the film "scorchingly funny" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) and Stiller's performance "rivetingly caustic" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Those against complain that the film is "a shallow tale told by an idiot" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and that Stiller's junkie character is too thoroughly unappealing for the audience to ever root for him.
This Masterpiece Theatre-funded docudrama about Queen Victoria's unusually close "friendship" with her Scottish manservant is said to reflect both the virtues and flaws of the PBS TV series: strong performances from actors little known in the United States (Antony Sher, Judi Dench, and Billy Connolly), but also a cloying pretentiousness and "decorousness" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). The movie "often feels pat and resolutely performed for the camera, scene by scene," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
This is low-tech inventiveness at its best" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). BWP is "the new face of movie horror" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ), and it ends with "as heart-stopping a climax as any the genre has seen in years" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The Los Angeles Times ' Kevin Thomas demurs, knocking it as "a clever, entertaining stunt, no more, no less," but Joe Morgenstern (the Wall Street Journal ) advises, "Don't see this ingenious first feature if you believe in ghosts."
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