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About Schmidt is about wasted lives. These people are dull, sad or whingesomely vulgar. You laugh at them, rather than with them, and feel guilty doing so.

Varied and expansive, this exemplary collection serves as an excellent introduction to American short film.

Payne's premise resembles a dare: How can I make you care for a person who looks and acts like this? He works the Disney device of love at first sight in reverse.

Alexander Payne's latest, unclassifiable film gallivants with us through a number of different worlds that all seem familiar, yet perplexing.

Witherspoon gives one of those performances that obliterates all before her.

An old school slice of comfort and joy for the cold season.

Behind the surface simplicity of a father and son road trip lurks a sharp and bitter-sweet odyssey with a strong sense of satire.

It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

The writing is consistently intelligent and even if the moral boundaries are breached with careless abandon, there is no feeling of irresponsibility towards the concept of wild oats.