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Visually poetic, but may be too dramatically inert for some.
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For me, the Polish brothers marched down a road leading nowhere. Aug 7, 2003
For me, the Polish brothers marched down a road leading nowhere.
Robert Denerstein
A compelling juxtaposition of the poignant and the bizarre, a movie that tosses moviemaking rules into the nearest Cuisinart. Aug 7, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
A compelling juxtaposition of the poignant and the bizarre, a movie that tosses moviemaking rules into the nearest Cuisinart.
Bill Muller
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. Aug 2, 2003 | Rating: B
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.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
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. Aug 1, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
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.
Roger Moore
An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name. Aug 1, 2003 | Rating: 1.5/4
An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name.
Rene Rodriguez
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. Aug 1, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Michael Booth
...a transcendent tone poem, an arrangement in dun and gray marred only slightly by the brothers' insistence on the occasional tin-ear joke Jan 27, 2005 | Rating: A-
...a transcendent tone poem, an arrangement in dun and gray marred only slightly by the brothers' insistence on the occasional tin-ear joke
Philip Martin
A moody and layered meditation on and evocation of literal and figurative states of purgatory. Jan 3, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A moody and layered meditation on and evocation of literal and figurative states of purgatory.
Michael Dequina
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. Jun 13, 2004 | Full Review…
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.
Martin Scribbs
It's a recipe for magical realism, and the Polish brothers deliver with a stunning cinematic statement. May 21, 2004 | Full Review…
It's a recipe for magical realism, and the Polish brothers deliver with a stunning cinematic statement.
Matt Kelemen
This droll surrealistic fantasy is like a gentler David Lynch hallucination. Apr 19, 2004 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…
This droll surrealistic fantasy is like a gentler David Lynch hallucination.
Kent Turner
Characters talk in solemn monotones, as if the entire drama were taking place in a funeral parlor. Feb 9, 2004 | Full Review…
Characters talk in solemn monotones, as if the entire drama were taking place in a funeral parlor.
Thomas Delapa
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