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Although the story is somewhat “simplistic,” according to Variety, Leachman’s “senile yet still tart-tongued” character “lends the film a certain unforced gravitas that provides compensational rewards.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

Another couple of miles and the eastern edge of the sandy area I is reached, after which a compensational proportion of smooth gravel abounds.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas