Korine has found an evocative subject, but he remains entirely too cavalier in this attitude towards narrative coherence.
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05/30/08
Mister Lonely (2008)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:8
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.1/10
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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Top CriticIn contrast to the grimy and occasionally grotesque Gummo (1997) and Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), this drama has a more gentle, Felliniesque feel.
05/30/08
Top CriticThe 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 CriticA movie that goes to extraordinary lengths to say ordinary things.
05/30/08
Top CriticKorine falls so thoroughly in love with many of his images, including his opening shot, that he stretches them out in hypnotic slow motion.
05/29/08
Top CriticLike 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.
05/23/08
Top CriticKorine'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
Top CriticA visually and conceptually mesmerizing and mystical movie.
05/16/08
Top CriticWhile 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 CriticIn its slightly comical, somewhat mordant, and completely ambient way, Mister Lonely wonders about the perils of idol worship, the way people can hand their entire selves over to a religion, be it Catholicism or celebrity.
05/09/08
Top Critic[Harmony] Korine hasn't released a feature film in nine years, and his new Mister Lonely is richer and sweeter than anything he's ever made.
05/07/08
Top CriticOccasionally there is a striking image or a moment of wounded sweetness, but mainly the film provides ample proof that it's possible to be bizarre and boring at the same time.
05/02/08
Top CriticIn this fairy-tale of arrested development, Korine has created his most mature movie yet.
05/02/08
Top CriticAfter Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy, the director Harmony Korine evinces a kind of integrity -- he tries never to entertain, and lo, he succeeds.
04/30/08
Top CriticI will end with the faint praise of Mister Lonely as the least offensive of the works in the Korine canon.
04/30/08
Top CriticThis is undoubtedly a small movie, but it’s also more than that: it’s a small, imperfect world.
04/30/08
Top CriticMovies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute shot of a clown bike.
04/30/08
Top CriticThe film is pretty ramshackle, full of obvious group improvisations that fail to spark and an overdose of bathos.
04/28/08
Top CriticIt'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
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