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« Dissension in the ranks | Main | Trademarking Joe » Thursday, October 26, 2006Departure from the c.w.I'd been meaning to write a post questioning the generally high praise that Martin Scorcese's The Departed has received, but then I read Dave Kehr's take on the film, and realized he'd said it already, in an admirably concise dismissal on his website. Kehr, who writes the new DVD's column for the Times, says the film "has a bored, dutiful feeling, as if Woody Allen had been forced to remake one of his 'early, funny ones.' " Well worth reading his thoughts if, like me, you enjoyed the picture, but felt it got a good bit more juice from the critics than it deserved. (And not just because of that rat at the end.) Posted by John Swansburg at 10:31 AM
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