Patrick Goldstein Pans Oscars, Fans React Sensibly...Just Kidding
LAT’s Patrick Goldstein is a critic/blogger. He’s supposed to give his expert opinion about stuff. That’s what he’s paid to do. And so he did. He didn’t like last night’s Oscars:
From Jackman’s strangely self-conscious low-rent opening musical number to Ben Stiller’s very inside-the-Beltway spoof of Joaquin Phoenix’s recent appearance on David Letterman’s late-night show, the awards had a tone problem–they tried to be something for everyone, coming off like a movie script that had its edginess and guts airbrushed out by too many studio notes.
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