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"W."

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Oliver Stone doesn't do comedy, intentionally. But perhaps he should: The half-baked, hayseed "Hamlet" he's created in " W." -- his very speculative biopic about our current president -- feels alive only when it ventures into the comically absurd.

Despite Josh Brolin's genius and the fully realized portrayal he gives this character called George W. Bush, the movie operates at a paradoxical,...

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