Downtown: A Street Tale Reviews
May 22, 2007
Amounts to little more than a downbeat soap opera.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
May 11, 2007
As maudlin and overly familiar as it is earnest.
May 11, 2007
[Director] Zielinski's attempts at serving up grunge and grittiness largely fall flat. Scenes of sex and drug use are typically accompanied by a swooning and intrusive soundtrack.
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| Original Score: 2/4
April 27, 2007
We're asked to invest in too many characters; on the other hand, aside from Bujold, there's no one you want or need to know more about.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
April 21, 2007
As Downtown plods toward its Christmas Eve-set climax, the film's tendency to OD on melodrama detracts from its grittier moments.
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| Original Score: 3/6
April 20, 2007
Earnest intentions can't begin to save this clumsy cautionary tale about teens and twentysomethings trying to survive on the mean streets of Manhattan.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
April 20, 2007
A hackneyed melodrama partly redeemed by a cast convinced that it's performing Tennessee Williams.
Original Score: 2.5/5
April 20, 2007
Original Score: 1/4