November
2Was Oliver too Early
I liked “W” a lot, but a glimpse at the box office charts suggests Oliver Stone’s film isn’t exactly galvanizing audiences. Given the weekend’s so-so results, “W” has grossed $22.4 million to date and its opening in France last weekend is just OK.So the intriguing question: Was Oliver wrong in rushing to release his film pre-election? Perhaps a year from now audiences would have been suffering less obviously from Bush-fatigue. Maybe they would have been more open to the notion of laughing at the Bush Epoch of self-destruction.

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