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SEAN PENN by Richard Schickel...
...least one causeless rebel whose choler is both enigmatic and unappeasable. Maybe, at 43, Penn has learned to speak politely in public. But it's one of our great guilty pleasures to watch him surface those terrible emotions we all feel but dare not share. --By Richard Schickel...
...internalized their morality that it comes out as just plain common sense, funnily understated. They can be bamboozled, but not for long. When eventually they restore order to the comically criminal confusions of Coen brothers movies, our pleasure approaches the sublime, as it does in The Ladykillers. --By Richard Schickel...
...summer a couple of decades ago, my distinguished colleague Richard Schickel bemoaned the lot of a film critic assigned to write about the seasonal pack of muscle-bound action pictures. ?It?s not that they?re bad movies,? he said. ?It?s that they?re the same bad movie.? Our job, essentially, was to make cutting witticisms - to distinguish not between apples and oranges but between rotten apples and rottener...
...Huggy Bear, could use some better dialogue, though he and Stiller do have a funny contretemps over his pet lizard. You could ... but why bother? This is not a movie to be deeply considered. It's a product to be rated. Call it passable. And probably profitable. --By Richard Schickel...