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A quieter, less melodramatic piece of work than last year's "Crash," and arguably a better one.Read the full review
Working from a stagy script by Sam Catlin, director Danny Leiner uses a dainty palette of tristesse (untouched when he made Dude, Where's My Car?) to suggest that the shadow of 9/11 makes every discontent more pathetic.Read the full review
The movie falls short of the grandeur it's reaching for, but if you're looking for balm to soothe your frazzled nerves, you may be able to scrape some from the movie's rawer edges.Read the full review
It is hard to feel much warmth toward people whose most salient feature is their disconnection from reality.Read the full review
Unfortunately, screenwriter Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner make the unexpected mistake of being too subtle.Read the full review