A Rose By Any Other Name

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2013)

Could this "Little" Film be more Overrated. It's Doubtful. Living up to Best Picture/Director, etc, of the Year is quite a lot of Reputation to Bare. But here it is. A Liberal Wet Dream that is not very Clever or Insightful but does have a Teenage-Middle-Age/Class-American Dream-Angst going for it and all done Beautifully.
The Acting is very strong all around and it has a Smooth Pacing, the Shallow Writing tackles some Touchy Subjects with a Bitten Tongue-in-the-Cheek, but to say that this is Great Stuff, Profound, New, or much more than Breezy Satire is Saying more than it Deserves.
There are Semi-Predictable Twists and it wears practically all of its Pretensions and Points Boldly, like one of those Self-Made T-Shirts. For all of its Accolades can Anyone actually say that they haven't seen this so many times before, so much as to have become Clichés. So no, this is just another take on the same old thing and rather well done at that. But, come on, take a deep breath, and Stop and smell the Roses. Yea...they smell the same here as they did before.