On the Rocks,” Reviewed: Sofia Coppola's Self-Questioning Film About a Father's Destructive Dazzle
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As Coppola distills the wry and rarefied delights of Bill Murray’s style of performance, she wrestles with the very sources of her own sensibility and roots of her own taste.
Richard Brody reviews “On the Rocks,” directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Rashida Jones and Bill Murray as daughter and father.
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