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Review: “This Is 40″
By Kyle | December 21, 2012
This is self-indulgence. My review of Judd Apatow’s unfunny comedy “This Is 40″ is up.
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December 22nd, 2012 at 3:55 pm
What you said about Apatow could be applied to Woody Allen, who’s been like that (self-indulgent, elitist, et al) a lot longer…
December 23rd, 2012 at 11:22 pm
The only time that anyone found cinematic evidence that Woody once was charming and genuinely witty (funny, while also being gracious), it was in black-and-white and Arlene Francis was in her prime.