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• tone is an even bigger problem than it was in his last produced screenplay

  by Sheri Linden [Los Angeles Times ]

• the variously eccentric characters and their flat Americana-kitsch backdrop never really feel like they're part of the same movie, either

  by Benjamin Mercer [Village Voice ]

• the tone veers so wildly and uncertainly from black comedy to would-be wrenching emotional drama that you just stare at the screen, blinking in disbelief

  by David Noh [Film Journal International ]

• the result here is the type of calamity that should be more compelling than it is

  by Scott Tobias [NPR ]

• the movie as a whole falls victim to a dewy kind of Tennessee Williams-itis

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• the more artistically ambitious and, perhaps for that reason, the more annoying

  by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail ]

• the film tends to treat Virginia like a tragic heroine of a vintage melodrama

  by Alison Willmore [Movieline ]

• the film is too intently focused on exposing how bad they are at maintaining their secrets, which leads to a slew of stupid outcomes

  by Jesse Cataldo [Slant Magazine ]

• plot twists strain believability

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

• overflowing with subplots and oddball characters

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• has much if anything to do with the upcoming US presidential election

  by Prairie Miller [News Blaze ]

• constantly destabilized by scripted swings between comedy and drama, realism and fantasy, genuine catharsis and indie-film ornamentation

  by Eric Hynes [Time Out New York ]

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