An eye-opening view of people usually ignored or taken for granted.
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08/08/04
Union Square (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 7
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Rated: R
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:May 28, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: UNION SQUARE is a powerful look into the world of homeless heroin addicts that live in UNION SQUARE PARK in New York City. Peer into the lives of seven individuals that allowed the cameras to... [More]
Director: Stephen J. Szklarski
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Reviews for Union Square
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The film attempts to affect an air of dispassionate objectivity, but generally comes across as an exercise in exploitation.
06/24/04
Top CriticWithout a well-delineated political or social framework, Union Square offers little that we didn't already know from, say, The Panic in Needle Park or Christiane F.
06/23/04
To most New Yorkers, the street addicts they encounter daily are nameless and faceless, and Union Square helps to humanize them.
05/28/04
Top CriticA moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one.
05/28/04
Top CriticStephen J. Szklarski's video documentary tracks the lives of seven young drug addicts who live in and around Union Square Park in Manhattan.
05/27/04
Top CriticThe material is vivid and harrowing, although the movie provides little analysis or larger-scale context.
05/27/04
The total effect, of course, is abject sadness as we helplessly watch each enact a unique anti-success story in an inverted reality show.
05/25/04
Top CriticIts unvarnished look at life in the slow lane exerts a hypnotic fascination.
05/24/04
Top CriticLike its seven subjects, it can't see past the immediate demands of addiction, and the film becomes a seemingly endless string of scenes depicting shooting up, nodding out and waiting around for the next fix.
05/21/04
Fails to ignite much emotion.
05/21/04
This is not a movie for the needlephobic
05/12/04
Spares no feelings as it peels away the harsh truths of living as a slave to a drug habit.
05/09/04
Brutal, mesmerizing documentary on New York heroin addicts. Not for the faint-hearted.
03/29/04
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