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   The story about the tension between radical avant-garde art and commercially accepted art (and other things) doesn’t really break new ground, but the script (by director Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli) is witty and fast-paced,  and the acting is exceptionally winning—especially Adam Goldberg as a self-absorbed musician, Marley Shelton as a gallery owner with such craving for the extreme that she refused to let her best-selling artist hang his paintings in the gallery and Ptolemy Slocum in a show-stopping turn as a neurotic conceptual artist who feeds Shelton’s lust for the for the novel.

 

THE INVENTION OF LYING

Woeful

 

    How can a movie that has three such reliable comedy figures as Ricky Gravais, Tina Fey and Jeffrey Tambor in the opening scenes end up so humorless?  It’s just one of the mysteries of this disappointing clunker.  Enough said.

 


Comments

Sean Allaway

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:17:57

Mr. Hilburn,

Bob Marley doesn't make your jukebox?

 

bob

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:12

Sean....There's no one Bob Marley record that made my jukebox top 50, but I think he's one of the greatest artists I ever saw..... if i was putting top 50 albums by era, i would have certainly put one of his down...and if i was doing 20 most exciting performers per era, he would have made it..

 

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