Cut with distractions: tweaky visuals, borrowed touches and cartoonish characters.
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08/25/06
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Iowa (2006)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:2
Rotten:11
Average Rating:3.9/10
Theatrical Release:Mar 31, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Matt Farnsworth (DESCENDENT) directs this hard-hitting drama about star-crossed lovers who try and make a quick buck by cooking up and selling some methamphetamine.
Starring: Matt Farnsworth, Michael T. Weiss, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Matt Farnsworth
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Reviews for Iowa
1 - 13 (sorted by rotten rating)
A sour vanity project: trash posing as a socially relevant 'cautionary tale.'
03/31/06
This is just stylistic plagiarism, without any sense of self.
02/06/07
According to this first-time feature filmmaker, the entire Hawkeye State is a hotbed of crime, corruption and clandestine chemistry, with home-cooked crystal methamphetamine replacing pot roast and Mom's apple pie.
03/31/06
There's not much story but there are plenty of colorful, almost David Lynchian drug freakouts.
03/31/06
Top CriticMatt Farnsworth's low-budget cautionary tale takes a 'drugs are evil' premise and pushes it to the extreme.
03/30/06
Here's a strange, moody movie about "Iowa" that's never going to make to a Chamber of Commerce dinner.
05/15/06
As director, Farnsworth lets tricky visuals run roughshod over dramatic unity, while as a performer, his lack of screen presence makes him seem sullen and uninterested instead of darkly charismatic.
04/13/06
A mish-mash of familiar cinematic would-be jolts and shocks that don't convince for a more than a moment or two.
08/25/06
Top CriticIowa is so stupendously slipshod that even mentioning the classics it vainly attempts to emulate would be to give it too much credit by association.
03/28/06
Farnsworth's frenetic, often hysterical first feature tries desperately to find a style, or styles, to call its own, but there's never a moment that doesn't feel as if it's been chewed up and spit out a dozen times before.
04/13/06
Farnsworth brings a smidgen of scary energy to the social hellfire, and his newbie cast often out-act the pros.
03/28/06
Top CriticThe most unflinching look yet at the meth pandemic that is sweeping across the Midwest as family values are plowed under by modern corporate agri-business.
04/03/06
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