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Look (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 14

Though Adam Rifkin's voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5

Though Adam Rifkin's voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.

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At times, it seems video surveillance is omnipresent in America, and Adam Rifkin (Underdog) spends the better part of two hours asserting just that in his fiction feature Look. This motion picture gains a historical footnote as the first U.S. mainstream movie to depict events solely through the "eyes" of surveillance video cameras. The preponderance of action unfurls in San Fernando Valley offices, stores, and shopping malls, where we witness security-camera footage of character interactions and

R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Adam Rifkin

Written By: Adam Rifkin, Rif Coogan

In Theaters: Dec 14, 2007 Limited

On DVD: May 5, 2009

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Critic Reviews for Look

All Critics (37) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (14) | DVD (3)

The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit.

March 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Maureen M. Hart

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

There are some funny moments, plus occasional nudity and sex, but the joke quickly wears off. What might have worked as a half-hour TV show doesn't suit itself to a feature-length film.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

Top Critic

Orwell would have loved it.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Jack Mathews

New York Daily News

Top Critic

With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Michael Ordo�a

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Look, an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance.

December 14, 2007 Comment

Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

Top Critic

Beginning and ending his film with a strip tease, Rifkin suggests some leering adolescent who's gotten his hands on a pair of X-ray glasses and sees nothing but randy, flatulent fools in his midst.

December 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Jan Stuart

Newsday

Top Critic

Rifkin has a cynical view of human behavior and he plays it for cheap titillation and bleak humor, which is mean-spirited at best and glib at worst.

May 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

By the end, you're ready to call for the abolition of video surveillance, if only so that you can stop watching all these irritating characters.

March 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly Source: Las Vegas Weekly

Not much is what you get with this bargain-basement attempt at Altman. It has 'direct to video' written all over it

March 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

If Crash had been this interesting it might have deserved that Oscar; this movie lacks polish but that is precisely what makes it work. It's a very interesting experiment, one which I found entertaining, nervewracking, and rewarding.

February 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinerina

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Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

The effectiveness of it in capturing our attention attests to very fine writing and editing which serve the mockumentary framework with immediate gripping power.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Jules Brenner

Filmcritic.com

This could have amounted to nothing more than a clever trick, but it's much more than that.

December 21, 2007 Comment

Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat Source: Los Angeles CityBeat

If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?

December 20, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Noel Murray

AV Club

Rifkin skillfully interweaves plotlines in a way that makes this currently much overused device seem perkily adroit rather than tiresome.

December 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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David Noh

Film Journal International

This is a great example of what you can do with not a lot of money as long as you're willing to think outside the box.

December 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews

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Moriarty

Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews

Rifkin's film is surprisingly compelling, if not up to dealing with the larger political issues it raises.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Look just wallows in the shameful acts. Nobody need watch.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News

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Glenn Whipp

Los Angeles Daily News

Some of this isn't easy to watch, but it's all worth a Look.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine

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Chad Greene

Boxoffice Magazine

heavy on concept, not content

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Norm Schrager

Filmcritic.com

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I expected a lot more from this movie then what I got. Lots of T&A, beautiful young women, not real point other then we are on camera where ever we go and when someone wants to use it against us they will. One of those put the kids to bed early movies. Really not a Movie but a Documentary. 1/2 star, pointless.

June 16, 2009

Bruce Bruce

Super Reviewer

The stated intention of "Look" is to show how much time we spend being captured on cameras, by staging the action as if it was being filmed by security cameras. So far, so good. But the movie cheats by including dialogue that would not normally be taped, robbing the movie of any ambiguity that the far superior "Red

March 4, 2010

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

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