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THE SAVAGES: A
''Why, you ask, would anybody seek out such a study in miserabilism for entertainment? Because The Savages is terrific — a movie of uncommon appreciation for the nature and nurture that go into making us who we are, a perfectly calibrated drama both compassionate and unsentimental. Because as brother and sister Jon and Wendy Savage, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney — two of the most focused, natural actors working today — are in peak form, and together they play off each other with the unfettered, joyous collaboration of great chamber musicians. And also because The Savages is bruisingly funny in the damnedest places, the way life is.'' —Lisa Schwarzbaum
