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Stacy Meichtry

Open Range
By Stacy Meichtry | October 23, 2004

Open Range brings a much-needed dose of nuance to a genre whose clichés have grown increasingly stale under Bush’s watch. Open Range doesn’t just revisit the old clichés, it relives them in Proustian detail.

Magnolia
By Stacy Meichtry | February 19, 2004

Magnolia is, if nothing else, a story of people struggling to depart from the kind of rehearsed language that insulates their egos and actually say something candid. That is why much of the film’s dialogue consists of characters talking around one another in clichés.

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