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Unsafe.(Iron Man, Then She Found Me)(Movie review)

The New Yorker

| May 05, 2008 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In the past twenty years or so, Robert Downey, Jr., has gone through the following stages: a good young actor with a melancholy smile; a good young actor who was also a drug addict, jailbird, and insurance risk; and now, no longer young, an actor who may become the first genuine hipster star since Robert Mitchum and Marlon Brando. Michael Keaton and George Clooney, in the "Batman" series, brought an instinct for satire to comic-book movies, giving their mock-stentorian lines a twist. But Downey, who completely dominates the whooshing junk pile that is "Iron Man," is on his own wavelength, and he turns the movie into a hundred-and-eighty-five-million-dollar put-on. ...

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