Critic Reviews
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Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
By hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary.
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Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
An ill-advised combination of tragedy and satire, it generally plays like the coffee-break fantasy of a temp who messed up a lunch order and paid for it with his dignity.
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Everything about this curio is claustrophobic.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Daniel Handler's script has snap, crackle and pop (he's the author of the popular Lemony Snicket children's books), and Curtiss Clayton's direction is darkly crisp.
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