A black-humored screenplay, realistic performances, eye-catching artwork, and a few creative turns on some well-worn themes.
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07/21/06
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Look Both Ways (2006)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:16
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: With animated sequences adding imaginative quirkiness to the mix, this movie about death and disaster is insightful, empathic, and more uplifting than one would think.
Theatrical Release:Apr 14, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Mixing animation and live action, Look Both Ways follows the misadventures of Meryl (Justine Clarke), a woman who sees disaster everywhere. One day Meryl is witness to a real accident that... [More]
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Top CriticFilled with aloof and confused characters just treading water, and even if they are likable, it eventually becomes tiresome. It's like one big pity party.
07/14/06
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06/24/06
Top CriticThe bottom line is that none of this goes anywhere beyond a droning funeral procession.
06/09/06
Top CriticThe film itself is beautifully done.
05/16/06
Top Critic... deliriously inventive ...
05/12/06
Top CriticThough Watt's emphasis on coincidence and fate seems strained at times, Look Both Ways is rich in dreamy summer atmosphere and deadpan wit.
05/11/06
Top CriticAn imaginative, humorous and truthful contemplation of human reaction to the inexplicable.
05/05/06
Top CriticWatt's characters ... laugh at themselves and their dark obsessions, and there's something optimistic in the filmmaker's clear-eyed, straightforward storytelling style.
05/05/06
Top Critic... a fearless movie about a fearful subject, an unusually empathetic and quite funny film that deals with death and dying in the most offbeat and casually life-affirming way.
04/28/06
Top CriticI watched the movie in a kind of fascination. It is poetic and unforgiving, romantic and stark.
04/28/06
Top Critic... a surprisingly (and inexplicably) uplifting meditation on the myriad ways life makes us all acutely miserable.
04/27/06
Top CriticThe much-honored Australian dramedy Look Both Ways may be the type of film that provides a purifying rain just when its beleaguered characters need it.
04/14/06
Top CriticIt's not a perfect movie. But it's definitely not a filmed play.
04/14/06
Top CriticLook Both Ways works its way to an improbably cheerful ending, but getting there is a slow trip.
04/14/06
Top CriticA pleasantly peculiar ensemble movie about melancholic people coping with random tragedy.
04/14/06
Top CriticSarah Watt's film follows a group of disparate and desperate characters over the course of one of the most depressing weekends in movie history.
04/13/06
Top CriticForging her own new path, animator Sarah Watt makes a delicate, empathetic live-action directorial feature debut.
04/12/06
Top CriticAn unassuming, unadventurous, but likable dramedy about dying and grief.
04/11/06
Top CriticIt is a marvelously promising first film, and Australia continues to amaze us with its steady procession of deliciously appealing young actresses. What is going on in that outback anyhow?
04/05/06
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