I can see why some critics called this an obituary to a lost Hollywood. It was very much a lyrical paean until the climax, and what a climax! Nice alternate history fix-up richly embroidered with real sights and sounds of the period. What could have improved it would have been a little more from inside the Family. I suppose he was trying not to glamorise them though. I watched it at home not in the cinema, and in two pieces over two nights. Then that gave me the idea: it should have been a series.

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