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...Lawrence Michael Levine’s savagely comic, unrepentantly dark-hearted Black Bear follows a film-maker stuck in a creative cul de sac to a lakeside retreat run by a failed musician and his pregnant wife....
...What’s good for Al is not good for Bobby Duvall. That’s the artistry of directing; but they do it. “Pacino, even then, was very intelligent....
...But then Robert Duvall turns up as a grizzled, reformed-alcoholic bartender who dispenses hard-earned wisdom and likes nothing better than a long day’s fishing....
...Senior cabinet ministers on Sunday sought to defend Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, amid growing pressure for him to resign for not preventing the police raids....
...It makes the gem-theft caper Flawless (Michael Radford) seem almost good....
...Robert Duvall, who won best actor in 1984 for Tender Mercies, once told me: “You get a little more recognition at airports. For a while you get sent better scripts....
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