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Dogman offers a grim character study set apart by Marcello Fonte's performance and director Matteo Garrone's tight grip on the material.
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Dogman can be unpleasant to watch, as films about bullying commonly are. But on its own terms it's well-made and even gripping. Aug 23, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Dogman can be unpleasant to watch, as films about bullying commonly are. But on its own terms it's well-made and even gripping.
Jake Wilson
A first-rate character study and morality play, set inside a rough-and-tumble drama from the mob world. Jun 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A first-rate character study and morality play, set inside a rough-and-tumble drama from the mob world.
Peter Howell
"Dogman" begins as a compelling morality tale about the price of loyalty and personal compromise, but turns out to be a strangely indeterminate - and numbingly familiar - portrait of human nature at its most bestial and self-defeating. May 7, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
"Dogman" begins as a compelling morality tale about the price of loyalty and personal compromise, but turns out to be a strangely indeterminate - and numbingly familiar - portrait of human nature at its most bestial and self-defeating.
Ann Hornaday
The movie is a parable about what happens if we allow the takers, the bullies, and the ego-monsters to dictate our lives unopposed; as such, it's relevant to history and to today's headlines. May 1, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The movie is a parable about what happens if we allow the takers, the bullies, and the ego-monsters to dictate our lives unopposed; as such, it's relevant to history and to today's headlines.
Ty Burr
A bare-bones breakdown of Matteo Garrone's David-and-Goliath parable hardly does justice to the violent agony and modest ecstasy you get on screen. Apr 25, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A bare-bones breakdown of Matteo Garrone's David-and-Goliath parable hardly does justice to the violent agony and modest ecstasy you get on screen.
David Fear
"Dogman" is a strange case: Great actor, great character, but a story that's like an overstretched anecdote infused with art-film portent. Apr 24, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
"Dogman" is a strange case: Great actor, great character, but a story that's like an overstretched anecdote infused with art-film portent.
Mick LaSalle
Matteo Garrone fully unfolds his narrative resources in a remarkable handling of irony and suspense. [Full Review in Spanish] Nov 25, 2019 | Full Review…
Matteo Garrone fully unfolds his narrative resources in a remarkable handling of irony and suspense. [Full Review in Spanish]
Carlos Bonfil
A very uncomfortable film, but I liked it a lot anyways. Sep 26, 2019 | Full Review…
A very uncomfortable film, but I liked it a lot anyways.
Tim Cogshell
It's a pleasure - of sorts - to see the director back with such well-crafted and vibrantly realised characters, caught once again in his nightmarish cinematic web of loneliness and self-delusion. Sep 24, 2019 | Full Review…
It's a pleasure - of sorts - to see the director back with such well-crafted and vibrantly realised characters, caught once again in his nightmarish cinematic web of loneliness and self-delusion.
Jason Di Rosso
A bleak but fascinating study in crime, character and toxic masculinity from the director of the acclaimed 2008 Neapolitan Mafia movie Gomorrah. Sep 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A bleak but fascinating study in crime, character and toxic masculinity from the director of the acclaimed 2008 Neapolitan Mafia movie Gomorrah.
Vicky Roach
It's obvious that Marcello the dogman is not just the keeper of a pooch parlour, he has a full set of dog-like instincts. Sep 1, 2019 | Full Review…
It's obvious that Marcello the dogman is not just the keeper of a pooch parlour, he has a full set of dog-like instincts.
John McDonald
With his hugely expressive eyes, Fonte (an amateur actor in a community centre drama that Garrone met by chance) is a major reason Dogman works so devastatingly well. Aug 30, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
With his hugely expressive eyes, Fonte (an amateur actor in a community centre drama that Garrone met by chance) is a major reason Dogman works so devastatingly well.
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