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Release Date: Aug 23, 2002; Rated: PG-13; Video Release Date: Jan 21, 2003; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Catherine Keener, Al Pacino and Rachel Roberts; Distributor: New Line Cinema
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Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk is a senior writer at EW and the author of ''Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desparate
Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor''
When an unsuccessful auteur (Pacino) vaults to fame after his computer-generated ''synthespian'' (Rachel Roberts) becomes a superstar, it's an excuse for writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) to mock spoiled actors, bottom-line-crazy execs, and the gossip-drunk media. But a series of pedantic rants (beware the protagonist who talks to himself) and willfully stupid characters has Niccol's plodding satire lacking much actual humor. Without it, it's just synthatire.
Posted Jan 24, 2003
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