REVIEW: ‘Vengeance’

The new movie Vengeance is very intelligent, it goes in unexpected directions, and it sticks with you. The problem is that it strains credulity in a weird way. But it’s still worth seeing.

We begin with a successful New York journalist named Ben Manalowitz, played by the movie’s writer-director, B.J. Novak. He and his friend (played by the singer John Mayer, well-known for being a cad) open the movie discussing their method of taking the names of hook-up-ready women and putting them in their phones in depersonalized code so they can remember who the women are. They do nothing but agree with each other. "One hundred percent," each of them says to the other. They are, and are intended to be, gross and contemptible.

Ben dubs one such girl "Texas," and as the movie begins in earnest,...

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