The Tiger's Tail Reviews
January 5, 2015
The fanciful tale is too absurd to take seriously.
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| Original Score: C+
November 18, 2011
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 6, 2009
Amateurish technical contrivance isn't this awkward, retro failure's only deficiency.
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| Original Score: 1/5
February 4, 2009
A real waste of a potentially interesting premise.
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| Original Score: 57/100
December 24, 2008
The Tiger's Tail, like Cassandra's Dream, prominently features a boat that is both symbol of financial attainment and emotional ruin; it also finds a master filmmaker defying the "show, don't tell" principle with almost crippling cynicism.
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| Original Score: 2/4
October 24, 2008
Original Score: 2/4
March 24, 2008
If there's anything about the movie that really rises above the mediocre, it's Gleeson's fantastic performance.
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| Original Score: 5/10
March 20, 2008
An almost madcap comic pace battles with thundercloud-building drama . . . The social commentary can be earnest and bald, with the mythic overtones seemingly contrived to tumble O'Leary into the class gap on his arse.
December 7, 2007
Far from being a roaring, sinewy beast with a lot of bite that the title might suggest, John Boorman's latest has more in common with a lumbering white elephant.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
June 19, 2007
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| Original Score: 2/5
June 8, 2007
John Boorman's tale of doppelgngers in Dublin would like very much to spook us, but keeps tripping over its loose script and bizarre plot lines.
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| Original Score: 2/5
June 8, 2007
Not quite a car crash of a movie, Boorman's uneven black comedy is more like a fender-bender. It falls into the twilight zone between so bad it's good and so bad it's bad.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
June 8, 2007
As tigers go, it's all growl and no teeth.
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| Original Score: 2/5
June 8, 2007
You get two Brendan Gleesons for the price of one in John Boorman's Dublin-set comedy, though neither is shown to his advantage in this uncomfortable mix of social satire and over-ripe melodrama.
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| Original Score: 2/5
May 10, 2007
Despite Boorman's subtle, suggestive direction and a nice central performance from Gleeson, this low-key thriller never quite works.
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| Original Score: 2/5
April 27, 2007
Any potential in Boorman's sinister parable is frittered away with awkward dialogue, shallow characters and failed attempts at comedy. A curiosity at best.
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| Original Score: 2/5
February 10, 2007
John Boorman's self-indulgent "moral fable" has promise ..., but like the dueling entrepreneurs who populate one strand of the narrative, delivers more sizzle than steak.
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| Original Score: 2/5
September 26, 2006
Original Score: 2/4