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FILM REVIEW: 'Novocaine' leaves hint of mediocrity

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From: University Wire
Date: 20011116
Author:Philipp Kuecuekyan

Philipp Kuecuekyan
University Wire
11-16-2001
(Columbia Daily Spectator) (U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- This could be a new adaptation of Frank Norris' classic McTeague, but it's actually Steve Martin in the orthodontal thriller, Novocaine.

The painter Rene Magritte once told an interviewer that he didn't want to belong to his own time because the present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. While the nuclear threat may have lessened of late (or perhaps not, depending on your point of view), mediocrity still reigns supreme in mainstream cinema. David Atkins' ambitious Novocaine, from the director's ...

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