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Vice

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Brett Alan Dewing
Dec 31, 2018
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You already know if you like Vice.  How do you feel about its subject, Dick Cheney?  There you go.  The film is propaganda and biopic in one.  The problem is that the movie doesn't know who it is.  It runs roughshod over a dozen genres and gimmicks, ending up a mash of formal tricks that are meant to amuse us but instead hint at a discomfort in writer/d…

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