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Review: Friends With Benefits
“Peering through the smokescreen of all the rewrites and story tampering, one can detect a core idea that was actually worth pursuing, namely that the new job in NYC is just a cover story for the real reason Dylan abruptly uproots his life: to run away from the unsolvable quagmire of his father’s escalating Alzheimer’s. To have better explored this conflict would be to create a fully formed character, equal parts audacity and cowardice, sympathetically flawed. However, Timberlake’s pandering need to always be liked renders such nuance untenable.”
Friends With Benefits
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“Peering through the smokescreen of all the rewrites and story tampering, one can detect a core idea that was actually worth pursuing, namely that the new job in NYC is just a cover story for the real reason Dylan abruptly uproots his life: to run away from the unsolvable quagmire of his father’s escalating Alzheimer’s. To have better explored this conflict would be to create a fully formed character, equal parts audacity and cowardice, sympathetically flawed. However, Timberlake’s pandering need to always be liked renders such nuance untenable.”
