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Critics Consensus: Visually poetic, but may be too dramatically inert for some.
Critic Consensus: Visually poetic, but may be too dramatically inert for some.
All Critics (102) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (44) | DVD (6)
For me, the Polish brothers marched down a road leading nowhere.
A compelling juxtaposition of the poignant and the bizarre, a movie that tosses moviemaking rules into the nearest Cuisinart.
For those on its peculiar wavelength, everything fits. For those who aren't, it's a painful piece of self-impressed drivel. Either way, you'll know you've been to the movies.
It's a tone poem of a movie, more visual than coherent. As such, what it's about is less important than the spell it casts.
An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name.
It is impossible to describe all the rich layers of Northfork, clearly an exhausting labor of love for the Polish brothers who wrote, produced, directed and star in the mystical movie.
...a transcendent tone poem, an arrangement in dun and gray marred only slightly by the brothers' insistence on the occasional tin-ear joke
A moody and layered meditation on and evocation of literal and figurative states of purgatory.
With the pacing of a death march and the theological heft of Angels in the Outfield, this feel-bad extravaganza is 2003's Exhibit A of why people avoid arthouse cinema.
It's a recipe for magical realism, and the Polish brothers deliver with a stunning cinematic statement.
This droll surrealistic fantasy is like a gentler David Lynch hallucination.
Characters talk in solemn monotones, as if the entire drama were taking place in a funeral parlor.
In 1955, officials try to convince reluctant residents of Northfork, Montana (one of who has built an ark) to leave before the town is flooded by new dam construction; meanwhile, a dying orphan meets a ghostly family and tries to convince them to take him with them. The mildly surreal Big Sky spirituality here may be too dry to inspire as intended, but it does set a unique and thoughtful mood.
Super Reviewer
What the Hell was I watching. Two Stars
"There's nothing fowl about these wings"
[center][font=Arial][color=darkred][img]http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8787/photo026dc.jpg[/img][/color][/font][/center] [font=Arial][color=darkred][/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]Weird. Weird. Weird. Weird. Is that a religious metaphor? Weird. Weird. Weird. Everyone will be affected differently by this, like an abstract painting. Still, it might be too weird for most, but those on its highly metaphorical wavelength may get some intellectual pleasure from this Polish brother oddity.[/color][/font] [font=Arial][color=darkred]Nate's Grade: B[/color][/font]
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