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 | | I prefer to think that Smith, who has a sharp ear for dialogue, has other shots in his cannon, and that Mallrats is to Clerks what Robert Rodriguez's Desperado was to his El Mariachi: a name-star, bigger-budget version of the fledgling auteur's no-frills calling card. |
 | | Maybe I shouldn't criticize Smith for returning to the same ground in the $7 million Mallrats that he covered in the $27,000 Clerks; after all, Quentin Tarantino's sophomore effort was Pulp Fiction, not much of a genre jump from Reservoir Dogs. |
 | | Yet I watched Mallrats feeling that Smith had already handed in a brilliant first draft with Clerks, and that Mallrats, though printed on better paper and free of typos, is an unnecessary second draft. |
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