Critics Confused By Just Which Magazine A Single Man is Supposed to Look Like

David Poland, The Hot Button:

"Ford, as a first timer, does a nice job creating a living, breathing Vanity Fair magazine."

MovieSet:

"A Single Man walks an interesting line by placing a suicidal character in world that could easily be found on the pages of Vanity Fair."

Guy Lodge, In Contention:

"No surprise then, that the handsome, eggshell-delicate character study A Single Man is very much an extension of that identity: trading in polished surfaces and swoonily aestheticized desire, the film looks on occasion like an animated GQ shoot."

Karina Longworth, Indiewire:

"On a superficial level, nearly every frame is highly styled to the point where it would not seem out of place printed in Italian Vogue (it may be too visually esoteric for the North American edition), but style is also a deeper theme."

S.T. VanAirsdale, Movieline:

"A Single Man simply looks too good to feel that bad. His affectations may work in the ad-heavy front 40 pages of a Vogue or Vanity Fair issue, but onscreen they expose the anguish and the artifice of beauty."

WINNER: Vanity Fair, though I suppose that was too easy, since Ford famously appeared on the cover and all. In any case: Rob Marshall, you're next!

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