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Detachment

Depression porn - you game?
Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks
Directed by Tony Kaye

I disliked Tony Kaye’s Detachment pretty much from the start--it doesn't help that the filmmaker never stops goading the audience to care, Care, CARE about it. The movie, starring an intensely focused Adrien Brody as a long-suffering substitute teacher, means to be a wrenching, minor-key lament on the plight of education today. I’d call it depression porn. What constitutes depression porn? ... more >