Stiller Deflates ‘Walter Mitty’; China Violence: Movies
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Who would have predicted that the rich fantasy world of James Thurber’s day-dreaming Walter Mitty looks a lot like a second-rate Wes Anderson movie?
Director and star Ben Stiller, nodding to Anderson’s whimsical indie moods, turns “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” into an earthbound reverie, mixing recessionary gloom with unconvincing Hollywood uplift.