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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 05 Sep 2012

Unfortunately, none of these characters feels worthy of our -- or the movie's -- attention…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 05 Sep 2012

A pleasant but overly complex variation on an idea Woody Allen toyed-with in his stumbling You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, this notion…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 05 Sep 2012

Falling in love with the page becomes a romance almost as tragic as one built on deception…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 05 Sep 2012

You wish it were better than it is, simply because nobody ever makes literary thrillers these days…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 05 Sep 2012

What do we learn? That it's bad to steal the work and identify of other people. For this we need an oh-so-serious movie…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 Sep 2012

A lush but fumbling literary melodrama outfitted with an attractive, generations-spanning cast and a puzzle box of three competing narratives…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Sep 2012

The film folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there's nothing to read between its graceless lines…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Film.com (1,892) on 04 Sep 2012

Another actor might have made us feel something complicated for this troubled soul, but Cooper merely looks like the kind of guy who would…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 04 Sep 2012

The Words leaves nothing to the imagination, smothering all these storylines in narration that spells out the actions we're seeing or emotions…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 04 Sep 2012

There's considerable gap between the film's ambition, which is to be a high-minded literary feature a la Atonement or The Hours, and its actual…

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By A. A. Dowd (13) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Sep 2012

The connections among the film's various plot strands are painfully obvious; by the time a grizzled Jeremy Irons saunters in, ready to dole…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Sep 2012

By the time a grizzled Jeremy Irons saunters in, ready to dole out a comeuppance, perceptive viewers will have mentally flipped to the last page…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 29 Aug 2012

A clever entertainment that segues from thriller to drama to romance without breaking a sweat or offering much depth…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Aug 2012

The Words fails to surpass dramatically the bland lack of specificity in its title while still offering a solid roundup of performances from…

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By Ray Greene (127) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 21 Aug 2012

The Words is a movie for people who buy their novels at Starbucks, made by people who write their novels at Starbucks…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jan 2012

A literary film that stands to work best for those who don't read, The Words is a slick, superficially clever compendium of stories about authors…

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