Life During Wartime
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings
- Starring: Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Shirley Henderson
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- Director: Todd Solondz
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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100His films will never be mainstream fare; audiences who wander into the theater may well find them derisive, needlessly shocking, perhaps unforgivable. But I'd call them, and especially Life During Wartime, unforgettable.
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A heady mix of deadpan humor that boldly uses such topics as pedophilia, race and terrorism to plead the need for forgiveness at a personal and national level.
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60While this film has the trademark Solondz black comedy, it does not probe into deeper emotions as successfully as "Happiness" did.
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0What some critics praise as astute and compelling, I find juvenile and fraught with hysteria. There's no arc here, no real pathos, and the direction is like watching snow melt on the side of a road.
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