Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers gives a film a soap-box review, writing, “If there’s something essentially wrong with ‘The Descendants,’ we can’t find it. What we see ranks high on a list of a year’s best films.” He credits a screenwriting group of Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash with giving Clooney “the context to broach a finest, truest and many emotionally tender opening of his career.” Travers admits that a tract “sounds like TV soap slop” but, echoing
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