Loaded with weapons

Life During Wartime

Crit

The funniest and best film about sexual perversion since Todd Solondz's Happiness; this is a several-years-later look at the same characters, though none of the same actors. Solondtz has played the same-role-different-actors game before, of course, within a single film (Palindromes), but where it felt kind of gimmicky there, here it seems a sensible comment on changes the years enforce--though the film also comments on how little the saddest of these bastards have changed.

Solondz always gets the best from his actors, and Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling, and, yes, Paul Reubens do some of their best work here, though the last three's appearances on the screen are regrettably brief. And having just finished watching the 5-year run of The Wire, I was of course pleased to see Michael K. Williams, aka Omar.