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Memorial Day (2009)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:1

Rotten:9

Average Rating:3.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 4, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: On a wild Memorial Day weekend, young partiers film themselves in ever more compromising positions. As things start to spiral out of control, the story suddenly veers off into an unexpected realm.... On a wild Memorial Day weekend, young partiers film themselves in ever more compromising positions. As things start to spiral out of control, the story suddenly veers off into an unexpected realm. The revelers have changed, and the holiday's over, but still they're determined to keep the cameras rolling, no matter what. The feature directorial debut of noted experimental theater artist Josh Fox and from the producers of Half Nelson, Maria Full of Grace and American Movie, Memorial Day is a shocking tour through a culture whose fascination with exposure and exploitation creates a horrifying new kind of entertainment. [More]

Starring: Sarah Nedwek, Neil Knox, Pedro Rafael Rodriguez, Robert Saietta

Starring: Sarah Nedwek, Neil Knox, Pedro Rafael Rodriguez, Robert Saietta, Nick Konow, Maria McConville

Director: Josh Fox

Director: Josh Fox
Screenwriter: Josh Fox

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Yes, Memorial Day is as dumb and unwatchable as it sounds.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
02/06/09
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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For all its visceral assaults and improv-ish aesthetics, in the end Memorial Day offers a conventional moral assessment.

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02/06/09
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

Most of the last hour of Memorial Day feels like a retread at least, and horribly exploitative at worst.

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02/05/09
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

An often bland, repetitive and quite nauseating experience.

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02/04/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Fox’s directorial debut is a strangely fascinating piece of misguided intentions, a crooked attempt to editorialize on the ugliest aspects of human nature gone awry.

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02/04/09
Eric Kohn
Eric Kohn
New York Press

Memorial Day sets up the party zone as a moral equivalent to the war zone, hammers that connection home and then stops-content with offering an equation in lieu of an argument

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02/04/09
Karina Longworth
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog

Rather than backing up the old chestnut about the banality of evil, Memorial Day does nothing but remind us that cinematic repetition inevitably robs immorality of its impact.

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02/04/09
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Memorial Day moves from clever mock documentary to groan-inducing conceptualism.

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02/04/09
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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Back in Iraq, the film's trite, unexamined spectacle of men and women behaving badly proceeds.

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02/03/09
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Village Voice
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Unpleasant concoction attempting to link soldiers on a drunken, sex-filled holiday beach leave with their horrific, sadistic behavior at an Abu Ghraib-like Iraqi prison is literally nauseating, no thanks to camerawork gone wild.

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02/03/09
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
 
 
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