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The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."
The story, narrated by the now-grown Michael in the shopworn manner of The Glass Menagerie , is set in motion by the return of the boy's Uncle Jack (Michael Gambon) from Africa, where he has toiled as a missionary priest.
The cover story repeats the shopworn criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs.
(No waiting around for stale, shopworn news and reviews to be delivered once a week and days late by certain newsmagazines we don't care to mention.)