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EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Jan 12, 2001; Limited Release: Dec 22, 2000; Rated: R; Length: 106 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sarah Jessica Parker; Distributor: New Line Cinema

David Mamet's delectably caustic comedy about the making of a big Hollywood movie in a small New England town. William H. Macy draws on electric glints of duplicity to play Walt Price, a celebrated film director who spins the world around his ability to lie — and laugh — in its face. The movie has the vacuum-packed atmosphere of all the films Mamet has directed, yet cleverness, heightened to a pitch of acid-tongued amorality, is both its flavor and its meaning. Mamet has crafted a screwball Day for Night for the infotainment age. B+

Originally posted Jan 26, 2001 Published in issue #579-580 Jan 26, 2001 Order article reprints
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