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by Lew Irwin
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Faring somewhat better with the critics is director John Sayles' Limbo, which receives an out-and-out rave from Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times, who indicates that he found the story structure fascinating. "Sayles has started with a domestic comedy, and led us unswervingly into the heart of darkness," he writes. But while Ebert found the surprise ending especially intriguing, Rod Dreher of the New York Post found it a "pull-your-hair-out annoyance." He writes that Sayles "completely falls apart as a storyteller." Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe & Mail agrees, calling the finale "a fraud" and adding, "even a resting place in limbo has to be earned, and this one feels like a cheat." Taking a middle position, Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan rights that while Sayles' film is "moving and empathetic," he may have "skirted the edge of overreaching." |
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