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Interview (2007)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 70 | Rotten: 52

Captivating performances from Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller make a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining.

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 16

Captivating performances from Steve Buscemi and Sienna Miller make a seemingly simple premise gripping and entertaining.

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With Interview, his fourth directorial outing, American actor-cum-director Steve Buscemi reworks a 2003 feature by the ill-fated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh originally intended to shoot an English-language version of the picture himself, but Buscemi signed on after the director's late 2004 assassination. The story concerns Pierre Peders (Buscemi), a steel-tough political correspondent infuriated by his editor's decision to hogtie him to a tabloid-level story about the seemingly vapid

R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Steve Buscemi

Written By: Steve Buscemi, David Schechter

In Theaters: Jul 13, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Dec 11, 2007

Box Office:$0.3M

Sony Classics

A mixed bag of realism and arch, dramatic exaggeration.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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This movie keeps falling out of rhythm just when it should be picking up pace. It's a fitful piece of wrong beginnings and false ends.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

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Interview feels more like a lab experiment/tribute than a committed, personal drama, leaving us with the sense that Buscemi wanted to feel more connected to this material than he actually did.

August 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press

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Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

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Buscemi's film conveys the spirit of its source material but doesn't make a satisfying transmogrification out of its homage.

August 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Stick with it for Miller's gutsy tour de force and the kick of watching Buscemi, as actor and filmmaker, turn an experiment into a mesmerizing battle of wills.

August 8, 2007 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

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I'll just say that Buscemi, who also directed and co-wrote, knows a lot about making movies but little about journalism.

August 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle

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Bruce Westbrook

Houston Chronicle

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The resulting film is a boring hour-and-a-half of watching two immature adults sink down to the Lord of the Flies lowest for no reason and hurl bile and vitriol at each other.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

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Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com Source: ReelzChannel.com

The movie really started off on a good note, but then it just got repetitive.

August 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

It's a bizarrely unaffecting film, completely detached even in its emotional scenes, that's worth seeing for Buscemi and Miller but won't linger with you for too long.

February 27, 2008 Full Review Source: The Deadbolt

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Brian Tallerico

The Deadbolt

From its opening frame to its final revelation, Interview hums with life.

December 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Matt McKillop

Filmcritic.com

Interview comes across more like an acting exercise than a workable story.

December 12, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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David Cornelius

DVDTalk.com

I can't get on the Sienna Miller bandwagon. I can damn with faint praise: she's perfectly competent as an actor -- but that's it.

December 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

A remake of a drama by Theo van Gogh, the Dutch director murdered by Muslim extremists in 2004 for having made a documentary depicting the mistreatment of females in the name of Islam.

December 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Mount Desert Islander

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Kam Williams

Mount Desert Islander

Two interviewers in search of a subject. That's the best way to describe this natural-feeling yet sometimes artificial two-person show.

December 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

The wonderful thing about Interview is that we have no idea where it is going to lead. It's honest, conflicted and surprising, as journalist and actress battle words and emotions in a potent drama that takes us to unexpected places

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Urban Cinefile

Interview is well-made but depends almost entirely on its acting. Neither of the two principals let it down, even when the screenplay isn't quite as sharp as it could have been.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London

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Derek Malcolm

This is London

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The characters are not very likable, but they are never boring, and are quite fascinating. The dialogue is well-written, very biting, and makes for some really good battles of wit and ego. Buscemi (Who stars, directs, and co-wrote the script) is fantastic as the frustrated, bitter journalist with skeletons in his

July 10, 2007

Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

Good performances from both actors and nicely directed by Buscemi but for all its theatrics, its let down by a predictable and unimpressive 'Twist' ending. Worth watching for the script alone!

October 1, 2009

Anthony Lawrie

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