I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much that it’s dumb as that it’s lazy.
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I’ve always thought that Jodie Foster is either very smart or endowed with the uncanny ability to project intelligence. The Beaver (2011) is neither of those things, but its problem is not so much …

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