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The so-called jokes here have a cartoon stridency and drop with a thud. None of them is deep or lasting.
Series 7 is clever, hip filmmaking, admirable for its tenacious faithfulness to the world it creates.
'Reality' notwithstanding, the performances in this film are uniformly good, and Brooke Smith as Dawn is better than that.
It's as funny as you could reasonably expect without Christopher Guest being involved in the project.
It seduces us until, damn our black hearts, we've come to really care who wins.
It really is the next logical step in reality TV . . . kill them all, and let the Nielsons sort 'em out.
...takes an intriguing topic but essentially beats it to death over the course of about 90 minutes...
Frazzled and edgy, Smith invests Dawn with the required measure of world-weariness and, crucially, she never succumbs to the temptation to slide into flippant, mocking territory.
Absolutely relentless in its bashing of the American public and what we consider entertainment.
Kill-or-be-killed reality-TV satire is uneven -- and unforgettable.
Suffers from the same problems that the "reality" television shows it satires suffer from.
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