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| | Thirteen |
 | | The movie puts over a febrile and interesting dramatic scenario, but its motors are wholly conventional, pitting parents against children, women against men, the vulnerable blonde against the dark, dangerous beauty. |
 | | The movie is thus inflamed with moral ardor, emphatically demonstrating what is going wrong, what hurts are being concealed, what piles of domestic debris are being seen, internalized, and rebelled against by witnesses too young (and unguided) to vent their outrage more safely. |
 | | The movie pulls you in so many directions, and its stated goals are so often at odds with the experience of watching it, that the film's disarray is ultimately more interesting than the kinds of disarray it means to represent. |
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