Imaginary Heroes Reviews
February 20, 2005
Harris directs at a funereal pace that snuffs out his script's own wit, and only Weaver keeps the bitter laughs coming.
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| Original Score: 2/4
February 16, 2005
These are not ordinary people. Or real ones.
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| Original Score: D-
February 14, 2005
Everybody is so screwed up here that it just becomes relentlessly so.
January 27, 2005
What the movie damagingly lacks is a personality of its own.
Original Score: 2/4
December 18, 2004
The interior lives of Heroes' adults seem like wild guesses.
December 17, 2004
Despite occasional affecting moments and nuanced performances from Emile Hirsch and Sigourney Weaver, the film sways awkwardly back and forth between prickly humor and pathos, rarely ringing true in either register.
December 17, 2004
Just an ordinary tale of rich people in crisis.
Original Score: 2/4
December 17, 2004
Follows the formula long ago established for movies of this ilk: the Big Crisis, followed by the Big Revelation, followed by the Big Showdown, followed by the Happy Ending.
Original Score: 2/4
December 17, 2004
Hirsch is dead-on with his weary deadpan in the face of high school torment, sexual confusion and parental absurdity.
Original Score: 2.5/4
December 16, 2004
Family crosscurrents are so rarely explored with any kind of intelligence in commercial American filmmaking, one applauds Harris for going there at all.
Original Score: 3/4
December 16, 2004
Sigourney Weaver creates a portrait of a taut, frustrated suburban mother of three whose complexity transcends the Mom as Devourer stereotypes who have prowled the movies since Mrs. Robinson stirred her first martini.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 16, 2004
[Harris] knows how to create complex, believable characters and how to inspire his talented actors.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 14, 2004
Imaginary Heroes is a queer-eyed valentine to Sigourney Weaver.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
September 15, 2004
A sharply observed tragicomedy that draws laughter as genuinely as it coaxes tears.