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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
AFFLICTION (114 mins., R) Nick Nolte, digging deep within, pulls out the meatiest performance of his career as an emotionally stunted middle-aged man who has inherited the affliction of his father's meanness, violence, and alcoholism. This adaptation of Russell Banks' beautiful, bleak novel is a movie made for writer-director Paul Schrader, specialist in banged-up machismo. In this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, he has hit a new level of artistry. Also great: James Coburn, in an autumnal star turn, as the lethal father. A
Posted Jan 22, 1999
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