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...dialogue is entirely meaningless to the development of the film, making it all the more unbearable to watch. The dull, tense conversation between the protagonists experimenting in their garage makes one wonder if Carruth has yet to leave his own parents’ garage to interact with the outside world...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...Coming here opened my mind," reads an entry in the visitors' book. "Leaving broke my heart. I am going home to redecorate my apartment." That's understandable. After a night in Helga's Folly, everywhere else looks dull in comparison. Rooms start from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Wonderland | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...style, right down to the magazine covers used to plaster bathroom walls. "Coming here opened my mind," reads an entry in the visitors' book. "Leaving broke my heart. I am going home to redecorate my apartment." That's understandable. After a night in Helga's Folly, everywhere else looks dull by comparison. Rooms start from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Wonderland | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...stand her up for Veronica? O.K., I made up the last one, but boys in pop culture haven't had troubles this clean-cut (I mean, Scrabble club?) since before today's parents were teens. That's probably the point--parents may not care that the dialogue is dull and earnest or that the characters have the depth of a Topps trading card. Clubhouse is as wholesome as a cold glass of vitamin-D milk, and about as zesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hear It from the Boys | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...impression. He balances his slight, thin build on a couch, sipping a glass of water and at one point sucking on a lemon. Schwartzman’s conversation—when he gets a word in edgewise amidst Russell’s freewheeling monologues—swings wildly from dull stories from the Huckabees set to an extended riff on the legacy of that ’80’s classic, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. His comments are intended to promote Huckabees, but their chaotic nature only serve to underscore the film’s flaws...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who Hearts David O. Russell? | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

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