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01/30/09
Shadows (2008)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:9
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.8/10
Theatrical Release:Jan 30, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: A horrendous car-crash changes a young doctor's life forever, putting him in contact with the souls of the dead in SHADOWS. Lazar's recovery from the accident is miraculous, but his trials aren't... [More]
Starring: Borce Nacev, Vesna Stanojevska, Sabina Ajrula-Tozija, Salaetin Bilal
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Reviews for Shadows
1 - 16 (sorted by rotten rating)
If not for the hypnotic atmosphere, lush cinematography, and frequent, if random, softcore humping, we'd have seen these ghosts before.
01/27/09
Shifting between garish city and bucolic scenes, Shadows offers some arresting images but fails to make good on its intriguing early scenes, with frissons of uncanny menace sunk by a glib, awkwardly paced and increasingly cliché screenplay.
01/29/09
Symbolic psychic horror tale is overlong and derivative.
01/29/09
Milcho Manchevski's Shadows is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural clichés.
01/30/09
Top CriticA respectable enough little ghost story, but it loses a lot of sparkle by being similar to such other guy-talks-to-the-dead thrillers as The Sixth Sense and Ghost Town.
01/29/09
An exercise overly rooted in American genre filmmaking while never sufficiently mainstreaming the European context in a way that would break out to more commercial stateside distribution.
01/30/09
[The] two very attractive leads, Mr. Nacev and Ms. Stanojevska, were picked out of a pool of aspirants in Macedonia and its neighboring countries. Actually, they are so arresting together that it is truly unearthly.
01/28/09
Top CriticOstensibly about putting souls to rest, Shadows at times seems more about making sure our hero (and director) gets his rocks off.
01/28/09
Shadows presents the old superstition vs. rationality argument with sociological undercurrents and more than a few surrealistic touches.
01/28/09
A hauntingly frightening, clever and surprisingly poignant psychological horror film.
01/30/09
The charm of Manchevski's film clearly lies in its ability to embrace its eccentricities and pull together a number of disparate ideas into what's generally a satisfying thriller.
01/27/09
A soulful Macedonian movie about a physician whose quest for meaning enables him to take responsibility for a terrible family secret and to come to terms with his lust for life.
01/30/09
Though overlong, the picture by 'Before the Rains' director Milcho Manchevski, is graced with stunning photography, spooky imagery, and a moralist's hand.
01/06/09
Manchevski bathes Shadows in the highly-charged, melodramatic atmosphere and renders the trashier touches with aplomb.
03/13/09
An unwieldy hybrid of historical allegory and supernatural mystery.
01/30/09
Top Critic1 - 16 (sorted by rotten rating)
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