The reason the film prompts laughter, and finally elation, is not because it's jolly or has any feel-good words to live by. It's because of the utterly demonic skill with which these foulmouthed characters carve one another up in futile attempts to stave off disaster.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Mamet's dialogue has a kind of logic, a cadence, that allows people to arrive in triumph at the ends of sentences we could not possibly have imagined. There is great energy in it. You can see the joy with which these actors get their teeth into these great lines.Read Full Review »
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