A strong contender for the worst movie of the century.
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11/09/03
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Masked and Anonymous (2003)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:3
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Unintelligible and self-indulgent Bob Dylan vehicle.
Theatrical Release:Jul 23, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $115,149
Synopsis: Masked and Anonymous possesses such creative audacity, such a flow of ideas and provoking observations, transported by a barrage of wit, performance, and, of course, song, that you are bound to... [More]
Starring: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman
Director: Larry Charles
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Reviews for Masked and Anonymous
Top CriticAbsolutely no saving graces here.
10/03/03
Top CriticA fascinating mess.
09/26/03
Top CriticThe stellar but misguided cast ... is simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.
09/05/03
Top CriticA fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio.
09/05/03
Top CriticThe music is great. Dylan and his band do a half-dozen songs that crackle with energy.
09/04/03
Top CriticA vanity production beyond all reason.
08/15/03
Top CriticIf Seinfeld is the late sitcom about nothing, M&A is the feature about something. It's just that some of us out here in the hinterland can't figure out what it is.
08/15/03
Top CriticWould have been much better if the makers had included more music, shot their actors with Ingmar Bergman close-up minimalism and made something looser, simpler and wilder.
08/15/03
Top CriticDylan seems content to just recycle his old ideas.
08/08/03
Top CriticThe results are heavy-handed and oppressive in the way that vanity projects and bloated collective theatre experiments often are.
08/08/03
Top CriticThe movie qualifies as a catastrophic mess, a chaotic celebration of Dylan's mysterious image as singer, artist and (judging by this movie) near-catatonic.
08/08/03
Top CriticVoid of inflection, Dylan doesn't act, but stands and looks uneasy in whatever space the camera is pointing. The deadness in his eyes stops the movie cold.
08/01/03
Top CriticThe film is a train wreck, and an overbearing train wreck at that.
08/01/03
Top CriticLess the product of a '60s icon than a sixtyish crank, it tediously commutes between anger and inanity -- and whatever answers it pretends to offer aren't blowing in the wind, but merely carried along by a lot of hot air.
07/31/03
Top CriticMasked and Anonymous is the rare movie that improves with repeated viewings, but is almost unendurable to sit through just once.
07/31/03
Top CriticDylan just stares in mute incomprehension. I know the feeling.
07/31/03
Top CriticIt requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it.
07/30/03
Top CriticPredictably, the product is pretentious and self-destructive, as disinterested in storytelling as it is brimming with misanthropic speechifying only a pop Mahatma could get away with.
07/29/03
Top CriticI haven't seen so many talented actors in such an utter mess since well, since Hotel. It's as if Fellini had a brain cramp and turned his camera over to a blind man.
07/28/03
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