Review: `Drillbit Taylor' hits 1 note (AP)

 
AP - Do you hear that? That shrill, shrieking sound coming from your local multiplex? That would be the Judd Apatow machine slowly, steadily winding down after humming along so brilliantly for so long. [link]

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