DO WORDS MATTER?
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DO WORDS MATTER?
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"Cianfrance keeps his eye on the long lines of the film, but a lot of the character details are fuzzy, or approximate, or just missing, and the movie, which holds your attention from moment to moment, by the end leaves you grasping for the experience you haven’t had. It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together. Sometimes a little hard common sense helps, too."
david denby, the new yorker