Northfork Reviews
July 16, 2005
Original Score: 2.5/4
June 13, 2004
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.
March 16, 2004
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 16, 2004
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
February 9, 2004
Characters talk in solemn monotones, as if the entire drama were taking place in a funeral parlor.
January 9, 2004
Full Review
| Original Score: 3/10
November 1, 2003
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
September 12, 2003
Northfork is visually stunning, thematically rich and, ultimately, about as exciting as watching an old car rust.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
September 6, 2003
The art-house version of a summer blockbuster: All style and no substance.
Original Score: 2.5/5
August 30, 2003
It plays out, dreamlike, often beautifully shot and visually appealing, but seemingly without purpose.
Full Review
| Original Score: C-
August 22, 2003
This pretty odd little fantasy-drama is more likely to leave audiences scratching their heads than it is to warm their hearts.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
August 22, 2003
There is a lot less going on in Northfork than its dour acting, odd symbolism and funereal take-us-seriously-or-else tone would suggest.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
August 11, 2003
The sympathetic might describe 'Northfork' as a cinematic poem or allegorical fairy tale. The uncharitable might prefer such terms as 'hokum' or 'hooey'...
Original Score: 2/4
August 9, 2003
The jokey elements are artificial, and strike a note of banality that undermines whatever sense of transcendence the film might be attempting in its stark, sweeping cinematography and mystical, dreamy milieu.
Full Review
| Original Score: D+
August 7, 2003
Beware of smarty-pants filmmakers run amok in small-town America.
Original Score: 2/4
August 7, 2003
For me, the Polish brothers marched down a road leading nowhere.
August 5, 2003
This Polish brothers' drama, about the imminent flooding of a small Montana town, takes on the unfortunate air of an inside joke that you're not invited to share.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
August 1, 2003
An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name.
Original Score: 1.5/4
July 27, 2003
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/10
July 25, 2003
Impenetrable.
Original Score: 2/4