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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20040916
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International Herald Tribune
09-16-2004
Vanity FairDirected by Mira Nair (U.K., U.S.)Reviewed by Stephen Holden*Her eyes snapping like tiny firecrackers and jutting her chin, Reese Witherspoon makes an appealingly crafty Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's bland but color-drenched adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel. Witherspoon, as usual, conveys a bristly, determined spunk. But if her performance emits enough sparks to hold the screen, it never ignites a dramatic brush fire. Despite her make-do British accent, she is quintessentially American in attitude and body language, even ...

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