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miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary .

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, he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift .

positive

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looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .

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, this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .
positive