Rabbit Hole Reviews
TheShiznit.co.uk
Rabbit Hole is hardly what you'd call a date movie, and it's difficult to see what kind of audiences it'd appeal to outside of awards season chin-strokers.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Examiner.com
John Cameron Mitchell's "Rabbit Hole" is a heart-breaking, somewhat depressing film that deals with one of the worst tragedies a couple can face. It is also one of the best films of the year.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Daily-Reviews
Contrived and manipulative
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| Original Score: 58/100
Uruguay Total
Un drama íntimo y conmovedor, narrado con sobriedad, sin golpes bajos y con una profunda empatía y cariño por sus personajes. Dentro de un notable elenco se destacan las actuaciones de Nicole Kidman y Dianne Wiest.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Sight
Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart give marvelous, shaded performances of grief-stricken parents attempting to move on without forgetting their pain.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Digital Spy
The actors don't flinch from the task and there is hope at the end, though it may feel like small reward after so much digging.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Habit
Doesn't quite make the leap from stage to screen with all its power
sbs.com.au
Director John Cameron Mitchell's restrained handling of the film's rawest moments keeps it from descending into soul-wrenching lamentations.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
It might be that this material is simply better suited to the theater, with its enforced artificiality and its crackling, dragging blacks.
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| Original Score: 86/100
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A very fine domestic drama that avoids the pitfall of becoming maudlin and offers many surprising little twists along the way.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Triple J
When Nicole Kidman has full control of her facial muscles she is unrivaled in her ability to play cold, distant emotionally scarred bitches. Its a marvelous performance. That said, the film itself can be so anguished that you will need counseling upon exit
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Q Network Film Desk
a raw and complex character study that challenges our identification and sympathies at every turn
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| Original Score: 3/4
Concrete Playground
Exquisitely raw and painful, sure, but also richly humane and deeply cathartic, for David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer and Tony award winning play is nothing short of a masterpiece.
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Quality drama, sure, but it doesn't go anywhere unexpected. For a film whose title evokes Alice's mysterious journey through Wonderland, it might have amounted to a little more.
ABC Radio Brisbane
John Cameron Mitchell has done an amazing job capturing the heart of these delicate characters.
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| Original Score: A-
At the Movies (Australia)
It's an unsentimental, occasionally amusing insight into two people who don't know how to become normal again. A very affecting and fine debut for Kidman as producer.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Age (Australia)
Rabbit Hole is a searing drama that, despite its bleak theme, bravely posits how even the deepest emotional abyss need not become a prison of depression and hopelessness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Trespass
Rabbit Hole may sound bleak, and it surely is at times, but its refreshingly unhistrionic take on the subject coupled with Kidman's mammoth performance make it a rewarding experience.
The Vine
Rabbit Hole is tender and sensitive where it counts, but also terminally tasteful. And there's nothing tasteful about grief.
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| Original Score: 2/5
