"A Different Man" might have felt cruel if not for how cleverly it complicates its punchline.
By refracting Brian De Palma's self-reflexiveness and the Coen brothers' mordant fatalism through the prism of his most personal obsessions, Schimberg creates a house of mirrors so brilliant and complex that it becomes impossible to match any of his characters to their own reflections, and absolutely useless to reduce the movie around them to the stuff of moral instruction.
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