by Bill Chambers David Lindsay - Abaire is the poor man's Tom Stoppard and Jason Bateman smothered whatever
vulgar charms his directorial debut Bad
Words may have possessed in an incongruous autumnal burnish, but they have a neutralizing effect on each other: Together, the strained seriousness of the former and the preposterous seriousness of the latter (Bateman shoots this one like The Godfather)
create a curiously palatable harmony.