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The Attack

Crit

At the risk of sounding like Hemingway advising you to skip the last 60 pages of Huck Finn, you should really walk out on this right after Amin's (Ali Suliman) interview with the Christian priest. Until that point, this is an intriguing exploration of what you can never know about the person you think you know the most about--particularly when she (Reymond Amsalem) straps on a bomb and kills herself and a bunch of restaurant patrons. 

Unfortunately, the last 20 minutes or so are devoted to explanations that are rote and not remotely as interesting as the mysteries they replace. Or, as Hem put it, the rest is cheating.
 

The Bling Ring

Crit

Poor Scotty wrote a story once that began "The very larcenous are different from you and me," and Ernest said, "Yes, they have more cool shit."

This was fun for about 15 minutes, but with nothing instructional to take away from it, it became a tedious repetition of callow youngsters finding unlocked doors at stars' houses and helping themselves to stuff. A far more rewarding text on the same theme was a T-shirt I saw earlier in the day: Eat the Rich: They Taste Like Chicken.

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