Only the scenes of Dylan on stage really hold the attention.
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12/30/06
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Masked and Anonymous (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 19
Rotten:58
Average Rating: 4/10
Consensus: Unintelligible and self-indulgent Bob Dylan vehicle.
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 emerge from this singular film feeling both... [More]
Starring: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman
Director: Larry Charles
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Reviews for Masked and Anonymous
...read as a collection of moments, mortared together with some stirring music, both from Dylan and his band and from others on the soundtrack.
08/23/06
The great neglected movie of 2003, a rambunctious, provocative, genre-defying, and constantly surprising experiment.
01/23/04
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Watching the film is like listening to Art Bell babble about UFOs -- it seems always on the verge of making a point but never gets there.
11/03/03
Just because the movie is largely unintelligible doesn't make it unwatchable, though sometimes it's artful in the same way a train wreck can be graceful.
10/17/03
A nonsensical vanity project for singer Bob Dylan that wastes the talents of a lot of folks who should have known better.
10/10/03
With Sixties vigor and carefree looseness, the legendary musician and poet has given us a late-career "Purple Rain" that turns out to be a great bad movie.
10/08/03
The idea of a movie where Dylan essentially plays himself sounds kind of promising. Maybe someday that movie will get made. It's not this one.
10/03/03
Top Critic Could just as well be titled 'Masters of War' or 'Tombstone Blues' or 'Everything Is Broken.' At every cut in the action, you expect a gray flannel dwarf to scream...
10/01/03
It's the sort of nonsense that's intriguing for about 15 minutes, simply because its incoherence approaches a surreal level. But then the novelty wears off, and it settles into being the worst thing a movie can be: boring.
09/27/03
Top Critic A more maddening, incoherent, frustrating film you're not likely to see.
09/12/03
How much you end up liking the film probably relates to how much you sympathize with Dylan or Dylan-like characters.
09/11/03
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