While Coppola seems revitalized by quoting from movies he studied at UCLA film school, what ultimately makes Tetro so compelling is the filmmaker's return to the motifs that made his 1970s films powerful.
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08/14/09
Tetro (2009)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:17
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jun 11, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $273,753
Synopsis: Almost four decades after he wrote THE CONVERSATION, Francis Ford Coppola returns to original screenwriting with this personal drama about an Argentine-Italian family. TETRO stars Vincent Gallo and... [More]
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Tetro
Top CriticWhat makes it eminently watchable is the craft. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. films in luscious widescreen monochrome that looks almost wet. Osvaldo Golijov's score is another pleasure.
08/14/09
Top CriticIt is interesting. Better, it is quite possibly great.
07/31/09
Top CriticTetro percolates with energy and bawdy knockabout humor.
07/16/09
Top CriticVisually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else.
07/10/09
Top CriticThe movie is alive from beginning to end, and it's a pleasure to see at least one big-name director get out of the prison of his own reputation.
06/19/09
Top CriticCoppola is still very much alive.
06/18/09
Top CriticTetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy.
06/18/09
Top CriticHere is a film that, for all of its plot, depends on characters in service of their emotional turmoil. It feels good to see Coppola back in form.
06/18/09
Top CriticTetro fuses the awkward and the ripely operatic.
06/17/09
Top CriticFrancis Ford Coppola gives you a lot to digest here and I appreciate that.
06/15/09
Top CriticIt is long and slow and, most importantly, lacking in dramatic tension.
06/15/09
Top CriticIt has a verve and vitality that's been missing from [Coppola's] pictures for 25 years, and its various and visible flaws all result from too much of that verve rather than too little.
06/12/09
Top CriticThe movie plays not like an old man's film but like a promising, frustrating student effort.
06/12/09
Top Critic[An] extravagant, and eventually lurid, tale of a tortured family.
06/12/09
Top CriticWith Tetro, it feels as if the director is regaining his footing, figuring out which parts of his past to hold on to and which to let go.
06/12/09
Top CriticDespite the overwrought plot and unabashed pretension, there's something admirable about the fact that Coppola clearly made this movie for himself. But he shouldn't be surprised if few others join him in watching it.
06/11/09
Top CriticTetro, the second in Coppola's new line of low-budget art films (following last year's headache factory Youth Without Youth), is hard to take seriously.
06/11/09
Top CriticTetro is a visually lush cinematic fugue about love, ambivalence and two brothers fleeing the dark shadow of their domineering father.
06/11/09
Top CriticThe heavy symbolism of binding family ties becomes too much to bear.
06/10/09
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