Yesterday, Anne Thompson posted “an early review” of David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, which she says was emailed by “one of [her] industry spies.” David Poland quickly huffed that “running an anonymous ‘friend’ as a ‘review’” is “just bullshit”, but for our purposes, skepticism over where the comments on the film (which are effusive regarding every aspect of the production) come from is neither here nor there.

I’m just wondering what happens now. The film has screened for some long-lead press as well as a couple of guilds, but until now everyone who has seen it (including yours truly) has kept quiet in the interest of playing nice with the de facto embargo. Should we now consider that vow of silence null and void?

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