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75The movie is a genial comedy, but it has significant undertones. Like some of Frank Capra's pictures.
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75Swing Vote is messy and its targets are relatively safe. But its aim is true. And Costner's performance hits the bull's-eye.
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75The mix of comedy and drama is winning; Costner couldn't be better, and the little girl is a find.
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75Swing Vote marries mild satire with Capra-esque melodrama in a formula that works surprisingly well.
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75The film seems like a loose and uncredited updating of "The Great Man Votes," a more serious 1939 entry.
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75The thing is far too absurd and broadly played for its own good.
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70Picture's comic smarts and affecting daddy-daughter drama provide a sturdy platform for its heartfelt advocacy of informed voting and responsible citizenship.
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67Costner does something difficult: In the middle of a tepid comic whirlpool, he finds the humorous aspect of inertia.
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63This one may be soft and derivative. But the actors establish a groove and stay on-message.
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63This reasonably entertaining movie falters by trying to be both a dark comedy and a sentimental treatise on family and country.
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60This light satire is unlikely to influence the forthcoming election, but Costner's in fine fettle.
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58If the title hadn't already been taken by another equally strained recent comedy, the new Kevin Costner vehicle could have been dubbed "Idiocracy."
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50Everyone, including the candidates, will recognize the importance of civic duty, leaving Swing Vote to end with swelling music and uplifting speechifying but on a completely unsatisfactory note.
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50As in so many essentially childish movies, it's an actual child who's always the smartest pants in the room.
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50A good-ol'-boy civics lesson that's too scattered to achieve its predictable goals.
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50Costner (who's also a producer) plays to his middle-aged strengths in a role that exaggerates male weaknesses.
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50A maddeningly indistinct picture.
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50The longer Swing Vote hangs around, the more engaging it becomes. It's twice as smart as you have any reason to expect but still only half as smart as you wish it were.
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50A mainstream, eager-to-please, relatively generic endeavor, not an auteurist showcase.
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The film's not nearly as idiotic as its trailer made it seem, because it's not really about voting, or politics.
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50This is a killer idea for a political satire, and screenwriters Jason Richman and Joshua Michael Stern come close to realizing its farcical potential.
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50Dusted off and brought up to date, it's still the same old Capracorn – minus the populist pizzazz he might have provided.
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42This potentially sharp working-class fantasy proves strangely unsatisfying.
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40Swing Vote isn't exactly a toothless political satire. It's something worse: a satire with dentures.
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40Swing Vote falls from agreeable fable into wan satire.
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38Hopelessly muddled film cries out for the firm hand of a dyed-in-the-wool cynic like Billy Wilder, who would have put some teeth in its jabs at amoral politicians and blindly ambitious journalists.
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38Swing Vote is a satire that's afraid to satirize.
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30Swing Vote may muster a few easy laughs, but the film is no contender.
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20Paints a surprisingly sour portrait of nearly all its characters, so much so that even the final-reel redemption rings hollow and forced.
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0Brain-dead political satire/tear-jerker.
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