As the juiceless double-crosses pile up in " Goodbye Lover, " you realize that what you're watching is less a modern film noir than an algebra problem, with all its attendant excitement.
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After making one very good, almost mainstream movie, " Hairspray, " Waters has been wandering in a wilderness of toothless ( and juiceless ) satire that's clocked such dreary entries as " Cry-Baby, " " Serial Mom, " " Pecker " and " Cecil B . DeMented ."
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Mikael Wood was less enthusiastic in his review for the " Los Angeles Times ", calling " 1989 " " a deeply catchy, sleekly-produced pop record with the slightly juiceless quality of an authorized biography, a would-be tell-all bleached of the detailed insight [ Swift ]'s trained us to expect from her . " Writing for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine accused Swift of being aloof in celebrating temporal pop subjects on what he felt was an attempt to record " a sparkling soundtrack to an aspirational lifestyle ".
