Review of About Schmidt (2002) by Manohla Dargis for Los Angeles Times — 19 Oct 2014
A comedy poised on the knife's edge of tragedy, the film is a gutsy, truthful, deeply rooted vision of contemporary American life, scaled to the size of an ordinary man. It's a humanist triumph strip-mined of bathos and confirmation that, after directing just three features, Payne has become the most gifted comic social satirist to hit our movies since Preston Sturges.
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This review of About Schmidt (2002) was written by Manohla Dargis and published by Los Angeles Times on 19 Oct 2014.
About Schmidt has generally received very positive reviews.
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