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Tag: john d’leo

Posted inFilm Reviews

Not All in ‘The Family’: De Niro and Pfeiffer Are Fine, but the Mafia-Comedy Script, Direction Let Them Down

by Bob Grimm September 19th, 2013December 16th, 2020

The Family tries to be many movies at once—and none of them are any good. The result is an overcooked mafia comedy laced with jarringly inappropriate violence and jokes that only its writers would enjoy. The Family wants to be a comedy, but it isn’t funny. At times, it wants to be a scary and […]

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