When Sordid Lives does what it does best -- showing Southern gals in the full flight of rabid self-denial -- it's as screamingly funny as this subgenre can get.
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New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
It's composed of really long scenes that are mostly dialogue, with transition action imagined or implied only. Couldn't we go outside for at least one scene?
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L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
L.A. WeeklyF. X. Feeney
Some of the performances are remarkably natural amid so much farce.