November (2005)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 53
Murky and too artsy for its own good, November ends up being a case of style with little substance.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 17
Murky and too artsy for its own good, November ends up being a case of style with little substance.
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November shapes up to be one mighty bad month for photographer Sophie Jacobs (Courteney Cox). When her innocent-bystander boyfriend is shot during a convenience-store robbery in midtown Los Angeles, photographer Sophie has a breakdown of sorts and finds the fine line between fantasy and reality blurring as her sanity starts to slowly dissipate. Also stars James LeGros, Anne Archer and Nora Dunn.
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All Critics (86) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (54) | DVD (4)
There is much promise here from the young director, Greg Harrison.
Top CriticIt's interesting, and November does give us something to chew on. But a puzzle with no payoff isn't worth the effort.
The lack of proper resolution to the story is more vexing than intriguing.
Essentially a student film that happens to star some big-name actors.
Does not provide enough 'clues' to Sophie's emotional background to make us care whether or not she survives the trauma of 7/11.
Best approached and appreciated as a puzzle that can be completed in various ways and a reminder that memory, like images, can be fixed, but not always trusted.
A pileup of stylistic audio and visual gimmicks and special effects, all in need of compelling characters and a story to hook us.
Wants to be smarter than it is.
Maybe November wanted to be the missing link between more conventional art-house films and the hallucinogenic dreams of David Lynch. It fails.
Director Greg Harrison attempts to compensate for a weak, undernourished screenplay with flashy visuals, including excessive rapid cutting and blurry shots that add nothing of value.
For those who like these sorts of cinematic Sudoku puzzles, "November" is a good one.
It doesn't always succeed, and sometimes it has the egocentric obviousness of a particularly clever, grad-student thesis film, but at least Harrison is game enough to mess with your head in the first place.
A fuzzy and ultimately unrewarding psychological thriller.
Like many dreams, November is long on imagery and short on sense.
A post-Memento, mess-with-your-head thriller that thinks it's much cleverer than it is.
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