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You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire. . .just to catch the zingers the audience often drowns out with laughter. Hollywood corrupts absolutely, and Mamet turns the toxic process into the year's best and smartest comedy.Read the full review
A quintessentially wised-up insider comedy, ideally cast and filled with sharp writing from start to finish.Read the full review
A bona fide populist laugh riot.Read the full review
Delectably caustic comedy.Read the full review
Relentlessly funny satire.Read the full review
Good clean dirty fun.Read the full review
As close as anything could be to a light Mamet comedy.Read the full review
It's Mamet in a lighthearted mood, playing with dialogue, repeating phrases just because he likes them, and supplying us with a closing line that achieves, I think, a kind of greatness.Read the full review
Mamet finds an angle just new enough to be fresh.Read the full review
A surprisingly unpolished piece of work that plays as though it were written for the stage and only slightly modified for the screen.Read the full review
