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Sheesh, talk about a worthless album. Not since all those Sonic Youth noise records have I been clobbered over the head with something so disappointingly unlistenable and uninspired. At least the folks behind SY had the decency to release that shit under a different name and label, admitting from the outset that the meager effort they put in wasn’t worth the same respect or attention as their real music. Listening to this Liars drivel you’d think it was a different band playing than the one behind They Threw Us All in a Trench...
TIME: Let's give Sy a chance...
...TIME: Sy, what's cheap...
TIME: I'd like to give Sy the last word...
Robin Williams comes to us these days in one of two variants--cuddly or creepy. The latter is marginally more amusing. Here, as "Sy, the photo guy," he develops not just the snapshots of a seemingly nice middle-class family but also a secret, obsessive, ultimately violent relationship with its members. Williams' passage from nerdiness to nastiness is plausibly managed. But the movie is also predictable, too pat psychologically. Its main message? Don't get too friendly with folks on the other side of the service counter. --By Richard Schickel