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Renaissance (2006)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:7
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Renaissance attempts to blend sci-fi wonder with stark noir animation, but is often more fun to look at than to watch.
Theatrical Release:Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: In the near future in a Paris, France, made of Plexiglas, aerodynamic steel beams, and rainslicked surfaces, a sinister plot unfolds: it's one honest cop (voiced by Daniel Craig) against an evil... [More]
Starring: Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Catherine McCormack, Romola Garai
Director: Christian Volckman
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Reviews for Renaissance
1 - 18 (sorted by date)
Top CriticFor its retro-futurist look alone, this outdated thriller set in 2054 Paris is worth seeing.
11/03/06
Top CriticIts dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing.
10/12/06
Top CriticIt's unfortunate that it's all in the service of a story as dull as it is complicated, though if you can make it to the end without drifting off, there is a small reward.
10/06/06
Top CriticThe sophistication of Renaissance is all in its ultracool appearance, with little of interest beneath its glittering surface.
10/05/06
Top CriticUndone by a plot that is ridiculously hard to follow and hackneyed.
09/29/06
Top CriticA comic book -- mint condition, double-bagged -- that leaves you impressed only with its pristine hollowness.
09/29/06
Top CriticThis chiaroscuro thriller is more visually arresting than narratively convincing, and as the police procedural unfolds, what might have been a sly cautionary tale, a la this summer's A Scanner Darkly, becomes merely procedural.
09/28/06
Top CriticRenaissance is more than mere eye candy. It sneaks into deeper, darker places - a dream world of shadowy menace.
09/28/06
Top CriticThe audience has layers of plot twists to sift through, with no great reward at the end for the investment.
09/22/06
Top CriticWith its halfhearted script, stiff performances and overlong running time, this is the kind of movie that's simultaneously dazzling to look at, and increasingly tough to sit through.
09/22/06
Top CriticRenaissance is a dark joy to inhabit once you jettison the idea of a satisfying narrative.
09/22/06
Top CriticThe grim, dystopian world in this animated French film is the product of a computer technique that evokes the sharp, linear style of a graphic novel.
09/21/06
Top Critic[Director] Volckman's vision, however unrelentingly monochromatic, does just enough with 'motion capture' to persuade you that it could tell substantive, even provocative grown-up stories.
09/21/06
Top CriticNo one will be talking about the movie's banal plot, the trite dialogue, or any of the indistinguishable characters who offer a bleak futuristic vision of cinema that's all style, no soul.
09/20/06
Top CriticIt might be hyperbole to call Renaissance unique, but it is very different from most films that open in theaters, and it's worth going a few extra miles to seek out, especially if this is a genre that holds appeal.
09/19/06
Top CriticIt's film noir, with too much noir for its own good.
09/19/06
Top CriticCertainly one of the year’s more luscious releases, offering not just the sleekest car chase but the most romantic of rainstorms.
09/18/06
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