‘The Wrong Girls’ is Proudly Not Much of Anything
By MARIO NAVES
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Perhaps it was filmmaker Darryl Roberts’s intention, when he set out to make a documentary criticizing this country’s obsession with physical perfection, to end up with a shoddy little message vehicle that appears to have been shot on a camcorder. In one sense, “America the Beautiful,” which opens Friday at Cinema Village, features an artful fusion of form and content. In another sense, it could use — forgive the expression — an extreme makeover.
Perhaps it was filmmaker Darryl Roberts’s intention, when he set out to make a documentary criticizing this country’s obsession with physical perfection, to end up with a shoddy little message vehicle that appears to have been shot on a camcorder. In one sense, “America the Beautiful,” which opens Friday at Cinema Village, features an artful fusion of form and content. In another sense, it could use — forgive the expression — an extreme makeover.
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