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The Rum Diary – Film Review

Avatarby James DawsonOct 26th, 2011 @ 5:01 pm EDTOct 26th, 2011 @ 10:46 pm EDT

Johnny Depp plays a boozing but idealistic circa-1960 journalist with his usual disaffected and distanced irony. Depp’s deadpan detachment in The Rum Diary feels anachronistic and unconvincing even on a surface level. Trying to play up its lackluster laughs doesn’t help…

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