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Wild Tigers I Have Known (2007)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:14
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Beautiful imagery and sharp performances make Wild Tigers a memorable film from first-time director Cam Archer.
Theatrical Release:Feb 28, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Middle school is rarely an easy time, but it's particularly difficult for Logan (Malcolm Stumpf) in this coming-of-age film set in the 1980s. He has the requisite unrequited crush--but the object... [More]
Starring: Malcolm Stumpf, Tom Gilroy, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens
Director: Cam Archer
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Reviews for Wild Tigers I Have Known
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The movie wears its ancestors on its sleeve -- Tarnation and My Own Private Idaho, sure, but also Kenneth Anger, Warhol, Harmony Korine. Full Review |
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Beautifully, I mean really beautifully, shot Full Review |
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If you allow yourself to be immersed in its often beautiful images and its reflective, ethereal atmosphere, it can be a memorable experience. Full Review |
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This is lyricism at its most extreme, at once gripping and off-putting because Archer views his characters as if he were gawking at them through the bars of a cage. Full Review |
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3/4 |
[Director] Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Wild Tigers I Have Known studiously avoids the clichés of the genre. It's also exasperatingly inconclusive. Its dreamy, enigmatic characters often fail to engage. Full Review |
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Archer hypothesizes that the junior high boner is the first step toward a lifetime of heartache and peer humiliation, and his argument is a vivid one. Full Review |
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F |
The filmmaker, Cam Archer, seems to be trying for a mood of hazy self-pity, which he achieves just enough to make you wish he'd get over it. Full Review |
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2/4 |
There's just not enough psychological mustard to cover this earnest hotdog-of-a-movie about a male loner's breakout infatuation with the studmuffin of his wildest dreams. Full Review |
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2/6 |
While there's something admirable in [director] Archer's attempt at making an ambient song of the self out of the protagonist’s search for sexual identity (along with some heavily metaphorical mountain-lion attacks), the result is empty. Full Review |
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2/4 |
There is talent on display here, but it is ill-used, and that makes Wild Tigers I Have Known a frustrating experience. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Young writer-director Cam Archer uses disjointed imagery, textures and clashing sound to create something seamlessly odd and poignantly pubescent. Full Review |
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3/4 |
First-time feature filmmaker Cam Archer turns what might have been an exercise in salaciousness into a stylish visual poem about desire and adolescent alienation. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Cam Archer is a 24-year-old with a future. At least that's the impression given by his first feature, Wild Tigers I Have Known, which he wrote and directed. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
The moment at the dawn of adolescence when hormones and daydreams swirl into a heady fog of confusion is poetically evoked in Wild Tigers I Have Known.
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1.7/5 |
If a film makes you root for the villain, and it's a "sesitive teen drama" then it fails. Full Review |
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Dreamlike first feature by [Cam] Archer -- short-form auteur of the queer teen crush -- in which a sensitive 13-year-old loner nurses an infatuation for an older boy. Full Review |
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