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Signs & Wonders (2000)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 28
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
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Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 3

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Movie Info

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

Unrated, 1 hr. 48 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Jonathan Nossiter

Written By: James Lasdun, Jonathan Nossiter

In Theaters: Feb 11, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Apr 26, 2002

Strand Releasing

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Critic Reviews for Signs & Wonders

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

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

Top Critic

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

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.

July 30, 2001 Comment

Loren King

Boston Globe

Top Critic

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

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Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

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Underrated ...

March 27, 2005 Comment

Philip Martin

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

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Brent Simon

Entertainment Today

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

March 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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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

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Ted Murphy

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

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David Noh

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

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

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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 film-making too much I think.

August 14, 2008

Dimitris Springer

Super Reviewer

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