‘Jonathan Unleashed’: Nice Dogs, Too Bad About the Jokes
This shoots for the angsty New York comedy of Woody Allen, but it suffers from that which Allen so famously called grounds for divorce: insufficient laughter.
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There may be simply too much to think about, but Saul Bellow certainly made a valiant effort over the course of his long career.
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