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Critics are split on the Coen brothers' follow-up to Fargo . The positive spin: They've grafted their trademark deadpan wit onto a '90s film noir.
An overtly negative review in the New York Times Book Review , by Courtney Weaver, calls the tone "self-consciously humorous"; says the wit at times "disintegrates into cutesy one-liners"; and complains that the stories are plagued by a "certain generic weariness."
Think what the clever spoonerist can do with “the painting is foul art, ” or perhaps even better, fowl art . Could one resist tampering if Joyce had written “She was a bit of awful lass, ” or if Shakespeare had penned “Thy chatter is but showful wit!
And the old Dublin is with us, too — the irreverent city of wit and charm and that peculiar magic possessed by Ireland and the Irish.
After an admiring review of Grizzard's wit, the author turns on the writer for peddling a nostalgic vision of a homogeneous pre-integration South: "Grizzard's idealized South was the world before feminists and affirmative action, when gays stayed in the closet where they belonged, where America pretty much meant the world of small-town white folks like him."