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Igby Goes Down

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 5:35 AMNo Comment

I’d heard great things, and it almost lived up to them. Wonderful cast, a rare likable performance from Claire Danes — it’s very good, but when it was over I had to wonder why, what the point was exactly. If the point is that there isn’t much point, or something about nonconformity and the point, okay, I can accept that, but it ended a bit abruptly for my taste — not that I want things overexplained, but I just wasn’t sure why I was supposed to care.

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