Running Time Dept.

I finally watched the "short" version of Kenneth Lonergan's much-debatedMargaretearlier this week, and I can't remember the last time I saw a film that I simultaneously liked so littleand admired so much. I admired its ambition and scope, but I disliked how all that ultimately translated into a story that was too baggy, too sporadically volcanic, too fundamentally undisciplined to really work. It's more interesting for the story behind it and for the ideas it touches on than for what it actua...