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Critics napalm the summer's second Earth-meets-asteroid movie, "an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The Washington Post 's Stephen Hunter finds it "so predictable it could have been written by a chimp."
Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.
The New York Times ' Stephen Holden wonders why Goodbye, Lover didn't go straight to video and asserts that Arquette, the film's sexpot, "exudes all the erotic energy of an inflatable doll with a taped voice muttering potty-mouthed come-ons."
A new editor (Stephen Smith) but an old U.S.
Some declare the film "a sugary paean to the violin as a tool for improved self-esteem" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ), while others are touched: "thoroughly appealing ...