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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Oct 2002

Half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations, while the remainder...would be more at home on a daytime…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 06 Oct 2002

It does have wit and sophistication. What it doesn't have is plausibility, so I'm giving this movie thumbs down…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Journal News (Westchester, NY) (178) on 04 Oct 2002

Offers a terrific role for Garcia, as a desperate man who keeps erasing and redrawing the boundaries of his conscience…

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By Edward Guthmann (364) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Oct 2002

A listless, predictable effort, occasionally redeemed by witty lines and charismatic performers…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 03 Oct 2002

It's Jagger's bone-dry, mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite…

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By Megan Turner (34) for New York Post (6,650) on 03 Oct 2002

Lasker's canny, meditative script distances sex and love, as Byron and Luther ... realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 02 Oct 2002

A deft morality play about a self-destructive writer who is transformed after a disastrous fall that affects his career and his marriage…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 01 Oct 2002

After an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly, sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 26 Sep 2002

Andy Garcia enjoys one of his richest roles in years and Mick Jagger gives his best movie performance since, well, Performance…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 17 Sep 2002

Andy Garcia in a terrific, restrained performance as a writer who takes a gig as a gigolo to make ends meet (so to speak)…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Jul 2002

The cast--including Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, James Coburn, and Anjelica Huston--keeps this pretty watchable, and casting Mick Jagger…

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