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Albert Birney, the director, co-writer and star, delivers a black-and-white ode to a previous era’s slippery boundaries between real existence and the 8-bit kind that isn’t quite a cautionary tale, nor does it want to be one.
From Los Angeles Times
I can hear the woodwinds and strings in your ode to creative lawyering in the states.
From Slate
But, as I’ve discussed in my ode to the Big Quarterly Prep Day, I do prefer it in ceremonious bursts: a few hours at a stretch, a good playlist, iced coffee sweating onto the counter, the sense that I am provisioning not just dinner but a future version of myself.
From Salon
Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe,” a 1967 hit that Kirk never recorded elsewhere, may be the most valuable find here.
The Seattle set has heartfelt renditions of two contemporary hits, “Ode to Billy Joe” and “Alfie.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.