A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Quartet (2012)

January 25, 2013

For a first-time director, Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman, 76, is a late bloomer. Accordingly, Quartet, the adaptation of Ronald Harwood play about a retirement home for musicians, is not a completely odd choice-despite its evident Britishness-for the aging star of Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man and Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet, it's possible that Hoffman is too close to the subject matter to see the screenplay's faults and, as a result, Quartet marks an uneven and disappointing directorial debut.

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