Review of Shopgirl (2005) by Dwilly — 18 Nov 2005

This is a terrible movie. Steve Martin should not be allowed to act; if you can even call that striking of a vaguely chagrined pose acting. Maybe he thinks since "doing nothing" has worked for Bill Murray.

.. but Murray has a genuiney bruised interior, whereas Martin's soft life seems to have left him without any interior; and the film's purpose seems to be a chuck under the chin to himself for having that lack of character.

With Jason Swartman only manically aping a performance, and obviously no director at the helm, poor, talented Clare Danes is all on her own.