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...that is morally acute. As in much of his other work (notably the scripts of Taxi Driver and Old Boyfriends), Schrader simply refuses to face the grim, climactic consequences of his essentially tragic vision. He manages to contract conjunctivitis just when he needs to be most clear-eyed. -Richard Schickel...
...more than most people, leading their ad hoc, late 20th century lives, ever get. There is bite here, but no bitterness. The overall, and lasting, effect makes A Couple of Comedians an unusually literate and oddly touching novel about performers going through the sound stages of life. - Richard Schickel...
...quite up to the large emotions the film's dark second half requires them to express. Everything is a little too gingerly. In the end, the film must be judged as muted, likable, not all it might have been, but a nice-and terribly decent-try. -Richard Schickel...
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...dare Richard Schickel say Star Trek's popularity is a "cult vogue among the half-educated"? I'll put my college degrees up against his any day. I hope Mr. Schickel, who I'm sure is a Klingon, falls into a black hole...