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04/23/09
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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10/18/08
Overall, this is frustrating arthouse stuff and Mister Lonely is unlikely to find any friends at Britain’s multiplexes.
03/14/08
I will end with the faint praise of Mister Lonely as the least offensive of the works in the Korine canon.
04/30/08
Top Critic... begins and ends with a wonderful, striking image -- Luna gliding by a red and white wall, riding a very low bike with a toy monkey suspended from the back -- but nothing in between is nearly as effective.
05/11/08
It's an endearing enough idea but the film's dark side undermines the charming set-up.
03/14/08
Mister Lonely is an offshoot of our celebrity-mad culture, like the National Enquirer morphing into The Maury Povich Show.
04/30/08
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
Despite a few lyrical moments, his film is overridingly precious and its realizations, rather than commenting in any real way on a celebrity-obsessed culture, just seem puerile.
05/09/08
Korine may have an original voice and eye but can't really think of anything interesting to do with them.
05/27/08
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 CriticThink of it as a cinema-of-the-infantile and you'll be better able to stomach the utter boredom that goes along with Korine's prepubescent logic.
04/17/08
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
The film is pretty ramshackle, full of obvious group improvisations that fail to spark and an overdose of bathos.
04/28/08
Top CriticA bore.
08/03/08
Possibly the worst movie this year... or at least we can hope so.
04/30/08
After eight dark and reclusive years (including drug rehab), enfant terrible Korine is back with a disappointingly slight and whimsical fable about the romance between a Michael Jackson and a Marilyn Monroe impersonators, peppered with skydiving nuns!
05/30/07
Curdles into fanciful obscurantism
08/26/09
Korine's strengths lie in crafting individual scenes, not in shaping a coherent whole.
05/01/08
Mister Lonely invites us to escape into fantasy, then seems embarrassed by its own dare.
04/24/08
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