Fans of Korine's previous films shouldn't worry that their idol has sold out--Mister Lonely still marches to the beat of its own peculiar drummer.
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05/06/08
Mister Lonely (2008)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:31
Rotten:37
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Less biting or offensive than Korine's earlier works, this frustratingly dull film still maintains the director's trademark odd beauty.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: After the success of indies GUMMO and JULIEN DONKEY-BOY in the late 1990s, writer-director Harmony Korine's follow-up is this dramedy. Diego Luna (Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN) stars as a Michael Jackson... [More]
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox
Director: Harmony Korine
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Reviews for Mister Lonely
He likes to shoot his actors from distances, so that they look a bit like the real McCoys. It's disappointing to find that they're not, but it's also even more intriguing to wonder: who are they, then?
05/15/08
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.
06/06/08
It's never clear what it all means or even if it's supposed to mean anything. Music and silliness get the picture through to its circular ending.
05/25/07
Top CriticKorine's strengths lie in crafting individual scenes, not in shaping a coherent whole.
05/01/08
Harmony Korine's new film is a whimsical, lazily conceived tragicomedy about lookalike impersonators, and it is so pointless and irritating that after a while I literally found it difficult to breathe.
03/14/08
Mister Lonely falls into the 'art house' category of film, and you can multiply that by 100.
05/30/08
Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement.
06/03/08
Too long, not nearly as funny as it hopes, and some plot elements (what’s with the sheep?) are extraneous to the improvised mood.
03/14/08
Korine comes back strong with an affected but intermittently affecting curio featuring the pseudo-starriest line-up you’ll ever see. Flying nuns on BMX bikes will be a leap of faith for many, but the wild black laughs keep things grounded.
03/14/08
While it's full of arresting, indelible images, Mr. Lonely remains mostly on the level of abstraction. You get it but you don't always feel it.
05/09/08
Top CriticIt's probably impossible to ever really understand what [Korine] is on about, but there are some accomplished sequences and terrific performances along the way.
11/17/07
Mister Lonely is an exercise in transformation, both on and off the screen. Korine has shed his Dogme 95 skin but what kind of filmmaker emerges is not exactly clear.
03/14/08
Curdles into fanciful obscurantism
08/26/09
Eight years before another Harmony Korine film is not a bad prospect.
03/14/08
Possibly the worst movie this year... or at least we can hope so.
04/30/08
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.
05/30/08
Top CriticThe film is pretty ramshackle, full of obvious group improvisations that fail to spark and an overdose of bathos.
04/28/08
Top CriticThe 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.
06/01/08
Korine's most lavishly produced pic to date begins as a sweet-tempered tale of social misfits-turned-celebrity impersonators, but falls short of its ambition to say something meaningful about the obsessive nature of celebrity culture.
05/22/08
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