Charlie is "brain dead" - Rex Reed

Having yourselves a good weekend? Cool for you.

Here's critic Rex Reed, on The Darjeeling Limited:

Mr. Anderson's approach to filmmaking is from the same brain-dead school inhabited by Charlie Kaufman screenplays and the head-scratching direction of Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, and David O. Russell: Throw incoherent ingredients in the air, talk all of your Hollywood friends into joining the frolic and let the pieces fall all over the place with the camera turning. They all seem to be making it up as they go along, between visits to the catering truck.

(emphasis added) New York Magazine has a write-up on grumbly old Reed, and it's quite amusing.

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