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Watch: 'Erica Wexler Is Online'... But Erica Wexler Is Dead In Excellent New Short Film
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- September 10, 2012 7:25 PM
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Having a short film stick with audiences is a tough row to hoe. For whatever reason they're judged much more harshly than features, and in that respect, they don't even get the benefit of having a super opinionated viewer spread their negative toxins (even the worst feature will warrant a one-star IMDB review -- like they say, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”). Not to defend the form blindly: they're often nothing more than a calling card or stepping stone to something longer and more expensive, rarely utilizing the short-form structure in an appropriate way or feeling at all complete as its own being.
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Agreed! (although, I thought a few of her other reviews at Cannes revealed or meandered too much,
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