Directed and co-written by Alexander Payne, The Descendants is nowhere near as good as Sideways. The cast is very strong - the younger members surprisingly so - and Clooney wrings out a solid, understated and sincere (though hardly award-winning) performance from a script that often feels under-written in a move to avoid playing up to the predictable soap-opera melodramatics of the story. The critics may be raving about this film, but it is only really the performances that maintain some interest.
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