Dog smuggles a nuanced inquiry of a social issue under the guise of popular entertainment.
Throughout, Judd Apatow dramatizes the ideal of community with an almost Eastwoodian sense of rapture.
Gilbert exposes a wealth of unsuspected pain and tenderness beneath Gottfried’s often thorny exterior.
Kevin Costner scowls and darts around the dubious thin line between “racism” and un-sugarcoated “truthfulness.”