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De Niro's Stand-Up Won't Slay You, but The Comedian Has Its Charms

By The Comedians
Jan 30, 2017

The title offers the first clue about what's off. Calling this movie The Comedian suggests that Robert De Niro will be playing something definitive or archetypal, as if there's just one kind of stand-up comic, as if he's representing a genus rather than embodying someone singular. A glut of other...

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