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Lives of the Saints (2006)

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PG-13, 3 hr. 8 min.

Drama

Jan 30, 2007

All Critics (12) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (7)

dares, from the unlikely vantage of Britain's criminal underworld, to look heavenwards - and, in its darkly pessimistic way, to see nothing there.

June 19, 2007 Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | Comment
musicOMH.com

As painfully hypnotic as watching a religious zealot ranting in the street and carrying a banner proclaiming the second coming.

January 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | Comment
Observer [UK]

Comes across as an obscure Renaissance play which has been badly modernised.

January 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent on Sunday | Comment
Independent on Sunday

Not every turn in the story is well judged, but what's more damaging is that the film's general aura is not sufficiently powerful.

January 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | Comment
Sunday Times (UK)

The moral of this well-shot but grossly uneven film is obviously that, once you get what you want, you may well find either that you don't want it, or that devastating complications can ensue.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

"Muddled" is the polite word, balderdash the preferred one.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Independent

Thanks to some sluggish pacing, sketchily drawn characterisations (notably Marc Warren's doubting priest) and a predictable, gun-toting finale, though, it ends up as far less than you might have hoped for.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

The Italian denim company Meltin' Pot paid for Rankin and Chris Cottam's unendurably pretentious stab at gangland street spirituality. Why?

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Comment
Daily Telegraph

The direction from Rankin and Chris Cottam is very uncertain; there is lots and lots of shouty acting and a cringeworthy denouement worthy of Viz comic's legendary cockney villain Big Vern.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Bizarre, involving and highly original, this leftfield gangland fable adds up to a strange, surprisingly moving experience.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A bizarre brew of Brit-grit, magic realism and religious allegory.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

Ambitious and beguiling.

January 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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