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The film is directed with a nice blend of goofy comedy and cold sobriety.

On the one hand, Buckley's characters and situations are clearly distortions, but on the other, they're the sort of mockeries that make it easier for us to see the truths around us than a more straightforward version of the story might.

What we get in sum isn't quite as funny, biting or ripped-from-the-headlines-scary as "Wag the Dog," but it's filled with nice little moments of trenchant drollery, kind of like a really good political humor blog.

(I recommend Wonkette.) And it's got a bust-out performance from Eckhart that's worth remembering.

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