A note on film criticism in general (see my opinion of Master etc. below). These people are all Left Wing Liberal Democrats. What they want to see is movies that show this country and the people in it as awful. That is why they praise movies like Mystic River, Dead Man Walking and so on. ESPECIALLY if they feature America hating stars. Every once in a while they will get on what they feel is a "band wagon" and approve a movie they feel everyone will like anyway; Master and Commander is an example. They automatically fall in love with boring movies that just talk and talk and talk, always about how bad everything is and never about how good things are or can be. Movie critics are a part of the "America is always Wrong" Media Elite. They adore Station Agent because the people are slobs, drug users, and they talk and talk and talk. Anyway, you get it.