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Rain (2002)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:15
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $283,615
Synopsis: The debut film by director Christine Jeffs, RAIN, records with charm the confusion of coming of age amidst domestic disintegration. In Far North New Zealand in 1972, Janey (Alicia... [More]
Starring: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Aaron Murphy, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas
Director: Christine Jeffs
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09/09/02
Top CriticFar from the first female coming-of-age movie, but it's one of the most vivid.
07/20/02
Top CriticIt is, like weather, what it is, neither good nor bad but something that feels as if it has the weight of the inevitable.
06/14/02
Top CriticJeffs creates a lush atmosphere of desire and approaching chaos, and delivers a bona fide shocker in the last reel.
05/31/02
Top CriticMs. Fulford-Wierzbicki is almost spooky in her sulky, calculating Lolita turn.
05/30/02
Top CriticAn affecting, troubling, dazzling film.
05/24/02
Top CriticFreights a young girl's self-destructive eagerness to lose her virginity with so much danger and even horror that it's as if the events were trying to make up for the film's previous lack of drama.
05/17/02
Top CriticA quietly reflective and melancholy New Zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life.
05/17/02
Top CriticA quiet, disquieting triumph.
05/09/02
Top CriticJeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness.
05/03/02
Top CriticIt has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing.
05/02/02
Top CriticA master work in miniature, an unsentimental yet not unsympathetic portrait of a family falling apart in slow motion.
04/29/02
Top CriticThis New Zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything. When it's this rich and luscious, who cares?
04/26/02
Top Critic[Jeff's] gorgeous, fluid compositions, underlined by Neil Finn and Edmund McWilliams's melancholy music, are charged with metaphor, but rarely easy, obvious or self-indulgent.
04/26/02
Top CriticSome of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious, but restrained and subtle storytelling, and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat.
04/26/02
Top CriticA coming-of-age tale from New Zealand whose boozy, languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board.
04/26/02
Top CriticThe dialogue is cumbersome, the simpering soundtrack and editing more so.
04/23/02
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