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03/09/07
What Is It? (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Synopsis: Crispin Glover helms this darkly comic tale about a lonely man, which is shot in a non-narrative style that encompasses plenty of bizarre imagery and a cast mostly made up of people with Down's Syndrome.... [More]
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It’s clear that [director] Glover is less interested in narrative than in rekindling a rich midnight-movie/avant-garde tradition that encompasses everything from Maya Deren and Jack Smith to Alejandro Jodorowsky and David Lynch.
12/08/06
Glover, who appears in the film as a kind of barbarian dictator-auteur, lacks both the self-imposed ideological innocence and the talent for composing sounds and images of David Lynch.
11/16/06
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Top Critic His directorial debut, What Is It? -- which plays as part of a double bill with a live, enthusiastically performed slide show in which Mr. Glover displays pages from his recent series of books -- is just as unclassifiable as he is.
11/10/06
Top Critic The film, for all of its very explicit connections to other works, is still a thing of unique madness.
10/25/06
If you're like me, i.e. an abnormally functioning film critic, you're likely to find it fascinating and utterly hilarious.
12/06/05
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08/09/05
Top Critic It's weirdness for weirdness' sake, and while I disagree fundamentally with a film that has no purpose other than to make you go 'huh ... that was odd,' I do concede that most of the weirdness in this case is at least interesting weirdness.
08/09/05
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