Should You See “Adjustment”?
Karina Longworth writes: ‘In his recent GQ story on Hollywood’s drift toward adolescent males, Mark Harris describes a now-mythical-sounding “tier of movies that used to reside in quality somewhere below, say, There Will Be Blood but well north of Tyler Perry‘s Why Did I Get Married Too?….[T]he kind of film about which you should be able to say, ‘That was nothing special, but it was OK.'” Until its ludicrous rip-off ending (which recalls the penultimate sequence of Vanilla Sky), The Adjustment Bureau is exactly that: OK adult entertainment. It would be truly nothing special if it weren’t also an endangered species.’
