Review of Absence of Malice (1981) by Richard Schickel for TIME Magazine — 30 Sep 2008
It is also extremely well acted at every level (one especially wants to single out Bob Balaban as the Government's chief aggressor and Wilford Brimley as its belated voice of conscience), and directed by Sidney Pollack with a sort of crisp but unassuming professionalism that is rarer than it ought to be.
Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half-inch, Michael's outrage over and Megan's entrapment in the plot to get him.
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This review of Absence of Malice (1981) was written by Richard Schickel and published by TIME Magazine on 30 Sep 2008.
Absence of Malice has generally received positive reviews.
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