Roger Dodger Reviews
December 8, 2016
The performances are absolutely superb, and that's where the film wants to live.
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| Original Score: 7/10
March 22, 2013
Original Score: B
January 27, 2009
Scott's hilariously hateful hauteur is able to counteract some falsely fuzzy notes in the ending.
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| Original Score: 3/4
August 7, 2008
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| Original Score: 4/5
December 27, 2007
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| Original Score: 3/4
December 30, 2006
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| Original Score: 4/5
December 6, 2004
Some have condemned this film for 'filthy content.' That's like condemning a hospital for being a place of disease. Kidd deals with 'filth' the way a surgeon treats a tumor.
Original Score: B
October 7, 2004
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| Original Score: 8/10
November 4, 2003
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| Original Score: 8/10
September 7, 2003
The dialogue addresses our expectations, gets us laughing and stops the movie from becoming too obvious a character study.
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| Original Score: 3/4
August 15, 2003
Kidd's story is a bitter pill to swallow - many will find the portrayal of Roger as some kind of hero bizarre.
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| Original Score: 2/5
July 30, 2003
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| Original Score: 4/5
July 22, 2003
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| Original Score: 5/5
June 16, 2003
Blatantly arrogant, unapologetically misogynistic, morally repugnant, and absolutely hypnotic. All these descriptions and more can be applied to the character of Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott)
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| Original Score: 5/5
May 28, 2003
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| Original Score: 3/4
May 16, 2003
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| Original Score: 7/10
May 12, 2003
Kidd says he wants the extras to act as a 'film school in a box,' but the overall effect is more 'it takes a village,' indie-style ...
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| Original Score: 2/4
May 11, 2003
...Rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle.
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| Original Score: B
May 6, 2003
Other than the slightly flawed (and fairly unbelievable) finale, everything else is top shelf.
Original Score: 8/10
April 8, 2003
The best American debut since Reservoir Dogs.
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| Original Score: 4/4