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EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2011)

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Exceedingly phony and insufferably cloying, Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close begs the question: ten years after the events of September 11, 2001, are we ready as a nation to turn our collective trauma into simpering schmaltz? Continue reading

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THE HELP (2011)
The Unenthusiastic Critic #8

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My girlfriend and I sit down to watch The Help, and learn that there were no problems in Jim Crow America that couldn't be solved with some fried chicken and a good old-fashioned shit-pie. Continue reading

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