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guardian.co.uk - 10/12/2009
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A straight adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable work of Foster Wallace is asking for trouble. If only John Krasinski had remained less faithful to the words and captured the author's spirit instead Timing both good and bad is usually out of our hands. As such, you can only feel for the ...
reviews.filmintuition.com - 10/10/2009
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) Like many Italians, I too often have a craving for cheese. But unlike the cheese obsessed inventor Wallace, fortunately I have enough willpower and common sense to keep my cravings both ...
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IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... for John Krasinski's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" aren't exactly encouraging on that front. At the Guardian, Danny Leigh believes that the film's problems lie partially in the book Krasinski chose, a short story collection that's no place for novices to start, and the fact that turning it into a very literal adaptation (boiled down into condensed monologues) "risks presenting this most fiercely empathetic writer as somehow akin to the smug, tin-eared misanthropy of Neil LaBute." He suggests Wallace's hyper-verbal prose would best be served by being adapted ...
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