The first true masterpiece of 2004

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Good to hear that Alexander Payne's Sideways, which my friends at Fox Searchlight have agreed to let me see early next week, is a winner, or is perhaps even, as David Poland declares, "the first true masterpiece of 2004." At the very least I look forward to savoring the four main performances by Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh and Thomas Haden-Church. But the use of the word "masterpiece" scares me a bit. A wait-and-see attitude seems prudent.