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As always, critics applaud Sayles' heartfelt liberalism and choice of offbeat subjects, which make him the "most restlessly independent independent filmmaker" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). But most critics say he "doesn't have a filmmaker's instinct" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). Except in Lone Star , they say, Sayles' dialogue is stilted and his cinematography drab.
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."
Most critics call it flat: "a homey compendium of feminist talking points laced with awkward satire" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The film's breakneck speed, mostly showing Perez being pulled in six directions at once, is "a scream--not because it's funny, but because screaming is about all anyone does" (Jack Mathews, New York Newsday ). A few enjoy the high-decibel/high-speed film, such as the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin, who says it's "a tour de force of barely controlled hysteria that's as funny as it's insightful."
But the New York Times ' Maslin calls the movie "daring, abstract," and filled with "imagination and surprise"; the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin declares, "As Raging Bull is to Martin Scorsese, Portrait of a Lady is to Jane Campion."
"It's the Bland Boys almost all the way" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). (A trailer is available here.)
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