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Robot & Frank

Crit

An amusement that wants to be more but just doesn't have the software for it. Frank Langella is terrific, of course, as a career cat burglar facing age dementia, and Peter Sarsgaard benignly channels HAL as the voice of the other title character, but the film forgets a critical principle in fantasy: make everything not of the fantasy follow normal logic. So don't, e.g., allow a plainly unbalanced complainant to come along first on a police investigation, then on a stakeout and bust. Class this as a likable couldabeen.