Both the satirical and the genuinely charitable intentions are weakened by hipster affectlessness: everyone in the picture is drab or stupid, and the movie itself is listless.
NEWYORKER: Palindromes
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The Hesses make jokes out of affectlessness and drabness the nowheresville prefab tackiness of the houses and the emptiness of a patch of country so remote that not even popular culture touches it.