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to make its subject interesting to those who are n't part of its supposed target audience

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is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own .

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is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out .

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the movie 's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker 's flailing reputation .
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