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What’s Aged the Worst?

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The abrupt four-year title card, too little Downey–Gyllenhaal time, their fictionalized friendship, Anthony Edwards’s wig, and the film’s persuasive Arthur Leigh Allen framing draw aged-worst objections.

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  • Replacing a planned two-minute musical time-passage montage with the abrupt “four years later” card is criticized.
  • The film is judged about five minutes short on Downey and Gyllenhaal together.
  • Their entertaining friendship is acknowledged as a movie invention rather than a real friendship.
  • Anthony Edwards wearing a wig is criticized.
  • The movie left one host certain Arthur Leigh Allen was the killer for years, a confidence later evidence unsettled.