What’s Aged the Worst?
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.