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a loquacious and dreary piece

negative

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the playful paranoia of the film 's past

positive

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predictable at every turn

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what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point .
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