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There is muscle and volume in the performances; but had Demme hung back, and kept things cooler and quieter, the mastery of what Ibsen built, and the agon of his extraordinary hero, would have cast a more looming shadow. Sep 22, 2014 | Full Review…
There is muscle and volume in the performances; but had Demme hung back, and kept things cooler and quieter, the mastery of what Ibsen built, and the agon of his extraordinary hero, would have cast a more looming shadow.
Anthony Lane
For a movie that lasts longer than two hours and is made up solely of talking, it's impressive that the story never seems to drag. Sep 18, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
For a movie that lasts longer than two hours and is made up solely of talking, it's impressive that the story never seems to drag.
Stephanie Merry
Though the film makes little effort to open up the play, letting it all unfold, as in the original, within Solness's house - if not his mind - Demme's version intensifies the drama into something oneiric. Sep 12, 2014 | Full Review…
Though the film makes little effort to open up the play, letting it all unfold, as in the original, within Solness's house - if not his mind - Demme's version intensifies the drama into something oneiric.
Peter Keough
Surprisingly engaging ... Sep 4, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Surprisingly engaging ...
Kristin Tillotson
A film that plays not as a theatrical antique, but as a crackling, profound entry in The Twilight Zone. Aug 14, 2014 | Rating: A | Full Review…
A film that plays not as a theatrical antique, but as a crackling, profound entry in The Twilight Zone.
Michael Sragow
Shawn veers away from his usual nebbishy persona here and skillfully suggests a master manipulator and shrewdly controlling womanizer driven by insecurities and guilt. Aug 8, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Shawn veers away from his usual nebbishy persona here and skillfully suggests a master manipulator and shrewdly controlling womanizer driven by insecurities and guilt.
Hedy Weiss
The film's themes of guilt shine through, but the flawed final product makes A Master Builder frustrating to watch. Jun 18, 2019 | Rating: 5.7/10 | Full Review…
The film's themes of guilt shine through, but the flawed final product makes A Master Builder frustrating to watch.
C.J. Prince
Hagerty and Joyce are revelations; the beating hearts of the film. Dec 28, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Hagerty and Joyce are revelations; the beating hearts of the film.
Nathanael Hood
[Jonathan] Demme sadly recognizes that the creative urge can't be extricated from sexual urges. Yet in the end, the performances are stronger than the film that contains them, as if art cannot come to grips with this conundrum. Aug 31, 2018 | Full Review…
[Jonathan] Demme sadly recognizes that the creative urge can't be extricated from sexual urges. Yet in the end, the performances are stronger than the film that contains them, as if art cannot come to grips with this conundrum.
Pat Padua
If A Master Builder marks the weakest of the three Shawn-Gregory cinematic collaborations, the elegiac tone makes it a fitting conclusion. Aug 22, 2017 | Full Review…
If A Master Builder marks the weakest of the three Shawn-Gregory cinematic collaborations, the elegiac tone makes it a fitting conclusion.
Kathy Fennessy
even if it doesn't always work perfectly, it is never anything less than engrossing and perplexing, usually in equal measure Jul 14, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
even if it doesn't always work perfectly, it is never anything less than engrossing and perplexing, usually in equal measure
James Kendrick
Gregory (credited as having 'created for the stage' this version), Shawn (the translator/adaptor), and Demme (the director) nobly pursue their solid, usually convincing, but rarely exceptional concept for a manifestly challenging symbolist play. [Blu-ray] Jul 3, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Gregory (credited as having 'created for the stage' this version), Shawn (the translator/adaptor), and Demme (the director) nobly pursue their solid, usually convincing, but rarely exceptional concept for a manifestly challenging symbolist play. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
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