Get Low Reviews
June 22, 2013
This is a film about a man who doesn't speak to the world for 40 years, and once it comes time, the movie won't let him, or itself, shut up.
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| Original Score: C
May 24, 2011
Basically, it's Hollywood slush dressed up as American Gothic.
January 24, 2011
Get Low's one saving grace is Murray's melancholic presence, which acts as a counterpoint to the rest of the film's desperate-to-be-loved banality.
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 24, 2011
1930s-set, treacle-pulsed snooze-'em-up.
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 20, 2011
Aaron Schneider's southern folk tale comes slathered in corn syrup, oozing its way towards a climax that's not so much big reveal as dying whimper.
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| Original Score: 2/5
September 26, 2010
(Duvall) unbalances what otherwise might be a delicate, sweetly comic movie about mortality and regret; sinking it with his flinty gravitas and careful inarticularaties.
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| Original Score: 84/100
August 28, 2010
Cobbled together from the Coen Brothers leftovers and sprinkled with a healthy dose of lax local color, Get Low argues for the cinematic value inherent in a consistent tone.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
August 21, 2010
A very mild anecdote elongated into a venerated performer's hushed Oscar-night valedictory
August 21, 2010
,,,sits there inert on the screen expecting to be admired rather than actually creating an experience worthy of your admiration.
Original Score: 4/10
August 20, 2010
Schneider spends copious amounts of celluloid introducing us to characters with no real character arcs in service of an event that's not seen as much of an event at all.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 11, 2010
Affable, warm, kinda boring
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| Original Score: 2/4
August 11, 2010
Overdirecting in the worst amateur fashion, Schneider hard-sells a quaint story to the point where this allegedly humble little movie feels like it's puffing out its chest all the time.
August 9, 2010
Modest to the point of nothingness, Aaron Schneider's debut feature Get Low mistakes simplicity for authenticity.
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| Original Score: 19/100
August 6, 2010
Instead of being good even without Duvall, Get Low is mediocre with Duvall.
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| Original Score: 2/4
August 5, 2010
Duvall adds sparkle with his cryptic decrepitude -- until that becomes as mannered and canned as the rest of the movie.
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| Original Score: 2/4
July 31, 2010
Poorly-directed and often drags while lacking palpable tension. Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek's well-nuanced performances can't save it from sinking into a mostly forgettable, stale drama.
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| Original Score: 5.55/10
July 29, 2010
A sincere but gamey mixture of cornball sentimentality and faux-period (not to mention faux-regional) detail.
July 29, 2010
breaks through potential tedium with such consistency that he strings the movie along, threatening to make the whole thing work
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
July 29, 2010
It's got miracle-worker actors, but only a miracle-worker director could pull off this drivel.
July 28, 2010
Duvall is sleepwalking here, displaying none of the unsettling and deep-rooted vitality he brought to such recent films as We Own the Night and The Road.
Original Score: 2/5