Armando Iannucci’s “The Personal History of David Copperfield” has a Dickensian knack for gratifying popular taste while yanking the audience toward emotional truth.
Following in the footsteps of “Groundhog Day,” Max Barbakow’s spirited film turns a wedding into Purgatory, with bumbling speeches and so-so canapés on endless repeat.
With a tone that swings from solemn to brutally hectic, the film about a group of black Vietnam veterans asks, Why fight and die for a country that will choke you anyway?