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expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street

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rather choppy

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amateurish screenplay

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costner 's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac 's perfunctory directing chops , and
negative