Opening

77% Fast & Furious 6 May 24
34% The Hangover Part III May 23
93% Epic May 24
97% Before Midnight May 24
67% We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks May 24
88% Fill the Void May 24
—— A Green Story May 24
—— Alyce Kills May 24

Top Box Office

86% Star Trek Into Darkness $70.2M
78% Iron Man 3 $35.8M
49% The Great Gatsby $23.9M
46% Pain & Gain $3.2M
69% The Croods $3.0M
77% 42 $2.8M
56% Oblivion $2.3M
98% Mud $2.2M
37% Peeples $2.2M
8% The Big Wedding $1.2M

Coming Soon

—— After Earth May 31
—— Now You See Me May 31
100% The Kings of Summer May 31
89% The East May 31

Mister Lonely (2007)

tomatometer

46

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 38

Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.

39

Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 14

Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.

audience

58

liked it
Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 4,001

My Rating

Movie Info

When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Earning a living can be a difficult endeavor in the City of Lights, and in order to make ends meet, one man has turned to mimicking the King of Pop. One day, while doing the moonwalk in an old folks home,

Nov 18, 2008

Dreamachine

Watch It Now

Cast

ADVERTISEMENT

All Critics (72) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (39) | DVD (3)

Korine has found an evocative subject, but he remains entirely too cavalier in this attitude towards narrative coherence.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Toronto Star
Top Critic IconTop Critic

In contrast to the grimy and occasionally grotesque Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), this drama has a more gentle, Felliniesque feel.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
Top Critic IconTop Critic

The film doesn't work, and indeed seems to have no clear idea of what its job is, and yet (sigh) there is the temptation to forgive its trespasses simply because it is utterly, if pointlessly, original.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Top Critic IconTop Critic

A movie that goes to extraordinary lengths to say ordinary things.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Korine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion.

May 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Like Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, the film has overarching problems yet contains diamonds of clarity and inspiration that you won't find in any dozen movies. You'll have to mine for those diamonds, though.

May 23, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
Top Critic IconTop Critic

Curdles into fanciful obscurantism

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

A colony of kooks where James Dean, Lincoln, Chaplin, Buckwheat, The Three Stooges and Little Red Riding Hood wannabes run amok in an Eldorado of wackos without ever quite losing their sanity, speaks euphorically to the many paths to personal liberation.

November 16, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Once the novelty of all the celebrity impersonations wears off, the film never gives you much of a reason to care about the predicaments of its cardboard characters.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

It's movies like this that the art house was made for.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

A bore.

August 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The film, more ant farm than movie, seems like a lazy effort from a talent who has lost his edge.

June 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star

This film may be Korine's most accessible as a director, featuring characters, images, and situations that are stirring and unforgettable -- even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.

June 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement.

June 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

The film has a delicate and deliberate pace. While all the characters could be assigned symbolic motivations, most just seem like annoying and self-indulgent jokes within director Harmony Korine's eccentric point of view.

June 1, 2008 Full Review Source: HollywoodChicago.com
HollywoodChicago.com

Mister Lonely falls into the 'art house' category of film, and you can multiply that by 100.

May 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies
Jam! Movies

Audience Reviews for Mister Lonely

[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img]
April 26, 2013
Directors Cat
Directors Cat

Super Reviewer

Michael Jackson (played by the fantastic Diego Luna) meets Marilyn Monroe (played by the beautiful - and one of the greatest actresses of our time - Samantha Morton) while working in a Parisian nursing home, Marilyn Monroe convinces Michael Jackson to come with her to a celebrity commune on an Island off the Scottish mainland. There, they live with the Pope (played by James Fox) who is sleeping with the Queen, Abe Lincoln, the Three Stooges, Buckwheat, Shirley Temple, Madonna, Sammy Davis Jr., and Charlie Chaplin (with Hitler-like characteristics) played Denis Lavant. They then put on the greatest show of all time. Meanwhile, Werner Herzog plays a priest who convinces a bunch of Nuns to jump out of an Airplane. It's as bizarre and wonderful as it sounds. Harmony Korine is ace and so is this film. Seriously, it's about the importance of individuality and finding yourself and films don't come more individual than this.
April 11, 2013
SirPant

Super Reviewer

No quotes approved yet for Mister Lonely. Logged in users can submit quotes.

Discussion Forum

There are no discussion threads for Mister Lonely yet.

Latest News on Mister Lonely

November 17, 2008:
RT on DVD: WALL-E And An Exclusive Tropic Thunder Deleted Scene!
The summer's biggest oohs and ahhs (and guffaws) hit DVD this week, as Wall-E and Tropic Thunder hit...

May 1, 2008:
Critics Consensus: Iron Man Is Heroic, Made of Honor Isn't
This week at the movies, we've got metal-plated superheroes (Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr....

December 5, 2006:
RTIndie: Stephen Frears Talks "The Queen" and Oscars; Almodovar And Cruz To Re-Team; Slamdance Lineup Set
In making "The Queen," Stephen Frears has directed one of the most critically acclaimed...

Help | About | Jobs | Critics Submission | API | Licensing | Mobile