Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 37
A complex and thought-provoking work, Atom Egoyan's Adoration works well as both mystery and engaging drama.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 5
A complex and thought-provoking work, Atom Egoyan's Adoration works well as both mystery and engaging drama.
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Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon (Devon Bostick) who reinvents his life on the Internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions from around the globe. Rachel Blanchard and Scott Speedman co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
May 22, 2008 Wide
May 30, 2009
$93.5k
Sony Pictures Classics
All Critics (97) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (38) | DVD (4)
A gimmicky, sad and beautifully acted mystery that keeps its secrets even when it loses its grasp of the logical.
Egoyan is nothing if not low key; and as dramatic as passages are here, he keeps the tone under control and the story believable.
Adoration is a delicate rumination on how innocence and truth evolve in the aftermath of catastrophe, as people stake emotional ownership in tragedy.
Egoyan's pacing is careful, deliberate, as it must be, because he's pulling together a complex tale, playing with time to reveal details piece by piece.
Egoyan's most affecting film since The Sweet Hereafter.
Scott Speedman gives a piercing, intelligent performance.
In Egoyanland it's always winter, but that can be reassuring.
Uneven enigmatic social drama that's framed like an imaginative mystery story.
A chilly intellectualism sucks the dramatic life out of Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's Adoration.
Though Egoyan, as usual, frequently strains credibility he at least manages to weave all of this into a fairly absorbing detective story that explores the roots and damaging implications of prejudice with unexpected grace.
Without the constrictions of an adapted text, Egoyan's creativity turns towards intellectual exercise.
Unfortunately the elaborately unspooled plot delivering these ideas in dramatic form is so scraggy and effortful it defeats the cast and rather compromises our involvement.
The most positive thing you can say about Atom Egoyan's latest film is that it is well-intentioned. But the most honest thing that you can say is that it's a painfully misguided and pretentious folly.
A pretty fatuous equivalence, made much more implausible by the clotted structure, some wince-makingly unconvincing scenes and truly terrible acting.
Atom Egoyan is up to his old tricks with this fractured, elusive drama, resembling but never measuring up to the ones which launched his career.
Populated with rich, complex characters, Adoration's impressive array of ideas is matched by its visual beauty and narrative ingenuity.
If you can buy into the improbable, this ultimately pans out as a wise and rather poignant story.
A complex, compelling brew, enhanced throughout by Egoyan's hypnotic style. Sadly, it's also weirdly remote and agonisingly slow.
An ill-judged crack at a mainstream thriller.
A characteristically skewed but cerebral look at a dysfunctional family in a movie much easier to admire than actually like.
Theme is all-powerful, with characters verbally fondling their histories and identities - and, in one typically po-faced scene, intellectualising vomit.
Egoyan has hold of serious material...but it is untidily stitched into the narrative, crushing any illusion of spontaneity and loading the dialogue with heavy-duty didacticism.
But when he turns from intellectual debate to the way human beings actually speak and behave, you might feel that he'd be better off writing essays himself.
Too self-conscious by half and often unnecessarily complicated. It's as if Egoyan, who wrote and produced it as well as directed, has so much on his mind that he can't sort it all out.
Seamlessly marrying the personal and the political, Adoration plots a labyrinthine course through all manner of millennial issues...
With Atom Egoyan, you can almost always expect a challenging film accompanied by realistic characters and dialogue, some heavy and complex themes, and no easy answers or payoff. "Adoration" is no exception. This is a multifaceted character study with a (slightly convoluted) web of a plot that goes in unpredictable
December 13, 2009Super Reviewer
Cast: Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian, Rachel Blanchard, Noam Jenkins, Kenneth Welsh, Aaron Poole, Katie Boland, Duane Murray Director: Atom Egoyan Summary: Assigned to translate a terrorism-related news story for his French class, teen Simon (Devon Bostick) weaves personal details into his tale,
November 8, 2009
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