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Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.
Not that there weren't a few truly emetic songs that united the vices of both: Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street," Walter Egan's (was that his name?) "Magnet and Steel."
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 ).
"As obstacles in the course of true love go, that's fairly major," says Rafferty.
of a father selling his son's body is too outré to have much resonance" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Arteta, however, receives praise for his "realistic" style and "flair for caustic storytelling" (Maslin, New York Times ). "Star Maps signals the arrival of a potentially major new talent," says Newsday 's Jack Mathews.