Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins.
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05/02/08
Anamorph (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Thin on plot but heavy on academic references, Anamorph proves more derivative than terrifying.
Theatrical Release:Apr 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Willem Dafoe (THE ENGLISH PATIENT) plays an NYPD detective who grapples with a string of unusual serial murders, perpetrated by a killer who fashions himself an artist. As the detective... [More]
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall
Director: H.S. Miller
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Reviews for Anamorph
Top CriticThe atmosphere created by director H.S. Miller is gothic, tortured, stylized yet tinged with a classicist's sense of composition, symmetry and, yes, perspective.
04/18/08
Top CriticThis serial killer movie is nothing but a copycat.
04/18/08
No more interesting than any standard episode of "CSI" or any of the other myriad of cop-centric whodunits polluting our airwaves.
12/04/08
The serial killer in Anamorph shows promise, even if some of his best moves are derivative. The same is true of the film’s director.
04/18/08
Top CriticA pale imitation of David Fincher's Seven.
04/16/08
Anamorph dances around ponderous issues and grotesque scenery but fails to really engage, startle or disturb.
06/19/08
Sure, it's better than 88 Minutes [what isn't?] but it's still pretty pointless, with unclear exposition and murky plot developments.
05/01/08
Compelling as it often is, Anamorph feels positively cloddish next to David Fincher’s Seven or Zodiac, with which it shares a fondness for shadowy rooms and dimly lit obsessions.
04/17/08
On a scale of one to Se7en, Miller's doomed rip barely rates.
04/18/08
A movie about a premise that metamorphoses into twaddle.
04/21/08
An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks.
04/18/08
The unfortunate fact is that it's more than a little dull when it isn't preposterous.
04/18/08
Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination.
04/27/08
The long shadow of David Fincher's Seven falls on Anamorph, a moody, ultimately unexciting thriller.
04/18/08
Top CriticA grimy, ugly film about death and the living dead in New York City, without the redeeming ambition of Seven or even the cultural commentary of Summer of Sam.
04/16/08
Director/co-writer H.S. Miller just lays on the chilly blues and a wet-blanket mood of arty anguish, leaving cinematographer Fred Murphy and production designer Jackson De Govia to trump up trompe l'oeils of carefully posed carrion.
04/16/08
Top CriticSuspense is something foreign to Anamorph.
04/16/08
Wears its influences...a little too heavily on its sleeve. But it does effectively convey a lingering sense of dread that can't be easily dismissed.
04/18/08
Top CriticBeyond its cool, reflective surfaces and infinite plays with perspective lies nothing -- character, relationships, motives all seemingly irrelevant.
04/17/08
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December 18, 2008:
Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination.
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