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Acting
Jeff Bridges' Ted is a masterpiece of charming self-destruction.
Cinematography
The Hamptons never looked so suffocatingly gorgeous.
Writing
Adapts Irving with surgical precision—every line cuts two ways.

Director
Tod Williams
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