8/10
This is a movie with a well-told, tightly wound story that moves along briskly enough that one never loses interest, and features undoutably some of the finest acting you'll see in a movie all year. Clooney, Gosling, Giamatti and Hoffman are all incredible. The dialogue is really snappy, I was reminded of The Social Network in that regard more than once. The problem is that for a movie that does so many things well, instead of ending with a bang, it just sort of seems to fade out. Even as I was watching it I was wondering what they could do for an ending that wouldn't be either melodramatic or insufficient, and I don't think the writers ever answered that problem themselves. The acting is great but the movie itself doesn't really go out of its way to sear itself into your brain. Subtlety is good, but only to a point.
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