Impeccable formal control to match audacity is mandatory, and Cronenberg provides it
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A History of Violence (2005)
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Reviews Counted:195
Fresh:169
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: A History of Violence raises compelling and thoughtful questions about the nature of violence.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Thriller, Comic Book, Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:Sep 30, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $31,408,459
Synopsis: Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence... [More]
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris
Director: David Cronenberg
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Reviews for A History of Violence
The movie begins slowly, methodically, and builds increasingly toward a devastating climax.
02/14/09
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01/15/08
The tension builds in a slow boil, then ignites furiously when we're not quite ready for it.
09/17/07
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07/14/07
Shows its stuff as both suspenseful, eloquent storytelling, while giving rise to larger cultural questions connected to the entrenched institutionalization of aggression as a major means of problem solving in this country.
02/08/07
A History of Violence develops with the singleness of purpose, and the rigor, of a mathematical demonstration, one that begins with a commonly accepted truth and ends with brains spattered across the floor.
11/11/06
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10/03/06
Cronenberg's masterful, intelligent and gripping meta-thriller leaves us pondering about our enduringly perverse desire for alternative realities, in which surrogate violent alter egos run righteously and preposterously amok.
09/28/06
A smart, absorbing thriller
08/26/06
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy.
05/12/06
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03/10/06
A tantalisingly explosive film about inner conflicts and secrets... a sublime psychological thriller in a western setting.
03/04/06
A strange David Cronenberg movie, and not in the usual audaciously morbid way. A brooding, contemplative picture that's tough, tight and masterfully controlled.
02/07/06
Lo más reciente del canadiense David Cronenberg es un sólido thriller, casi de factura clásica, sobre las ramificaciones de la violencia.
01/12/06
I have no doubt that the humor is intentional, but it serves to undercut the whole thematic conflict.
12/15/05
What Mortensen does brilliantly is to keep us guessing.
12/06/05
There are elements in this film that are 100% Cronenberg (the beautiful violence we so rarely see these days, subtle weird humor), but this is not your typical Cronenberg
12/06/05
See this movie -- I promise it won't be like any other movie you've ever seen, and may well change the way you look at violence in the movies.
11/11/05
Tematicamente ambicioso, demonstra ter segurança suficiente da força de sua narrativa ao permitir que o espectador saia do cinema sem estar completamente certo de como tudo terminou. E esta talvez seja uma de suas maiores virtudes.
11/11/05
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