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It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
Some blast the film because it uses a child's death "as merely the first manipulation of many meant to engender sympathy for its heroine" and call it "fraudulent in every detail" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Others deny these charges, saying the movie has "an emotional depth and psychological acuity that place it in a category by itself" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Most concur in their estimation of Weaver's work: "emotionally direct … lovely, warm" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to read a review of the Jane Hamilton novel that was the basis of the film.)
Forman and his colleagues present the Andy Kaufman mystery as if they thought it was utterly impenetrable" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or as Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times , "what is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?"
Says Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal : It "swings between chaos and pandemonium, with occasional eruptions of bathroom humor."
The stars make this "medium-grade pulp" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) worth watching.
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