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Signs & Wonders (2000)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 177

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Following up on his critically successful debut, Sunday (1997), which won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter directs this romantic drama about a man obsessed with coincidence, serendipity, and the preternatural. Alec Skarsgard (Stellan Skarsgard) is a Stockholm-born American who lives in Athens and works as a commodities trader. He takes great pride in his ability to perceive patterns and trends in the daily undulations of the market and thereby turn a huge profit. In

Apr 26, 2002

Strand Releasing

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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (9)

Rampling, to her credit, helps hold the nuthouse together.

August 15, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Until it devolves into what seems like a quasi-surreal Fatal Attraction ... offers a stark, spooky portrait of family fracture and loss.

August 2, 2001 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.

July 30, 2001 Comment
Boston Globe
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For all its ambition and richness of style, Signs & Wonders never shows us what's inside Alec.

July 6, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Underrated ...

March 27, 2005 Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Abtruse, delicately constructed and thoughtful... an arty Euro-flick with an almost entirely emotional mystery and pay-off.

September 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | Comment
Entertainment Today

Feels like a film that could have been shot by Nicolas Roeg.

March 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Nossiter deserves kudos for being willing to tell stories about characters that aren't twentysomething hard bodies, but rather mature adults.

December 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Baseline.Hollywood.com | Comment
Baseline.Hollywood.com

There's a potentially good film struggling to get out of an overly self-conscious director's grip here.

August 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Signs takes us into Alec's confused head, and, although it can be disturbing there, it's never dull.

August 9, 2001 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Signs & Wonders

I like it.As a cult art-house it doesn't fail,trifling and playfully iconoclastic.Greece as a tourist/underground combination.We have a Rambling/Skarsgard clash and to be honest,Katalifos' inspiring performance steals the show.Nossiter moves around like a rat amongst cats' dormitories carrying out his passion for

August 14, 2008
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Dimitris Springer

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A second viewing might be warranted to do justice to all the subtle nuances present in this flick, but mostly I think this psychological drama is just a bit too plodding.

April 12, 2009
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Jeff B

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