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Martin
Dovidl
Helen
Dovidl
Martin 17-21
Billy
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All Critics (55) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (33)
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A payoff is coming - you know it from the film's opening credits, or its poster - but it takes so long to reveal itself that when it does, it can't help but feel anticlimactic.
January 31, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review… -
Far from heightening the sense of mystery, the flashback construction renders the present-day dramatically inert, giving fine actors little to do save deliver exposition.
January 3, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… -
There's a mystery at the heart of "The Song of Names," but it isn't much of a mystery, and once it's solved, the movie loses what little interest it has.
December 31, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
Is a mediocre film worth seeing for a single magnificent sequence that only works properly in context? Here's the test case.
December 26, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review… -
Literate, sober, soulful.
December 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
The movie never quite justifies the contrivance of its puzzle-box construction. Parlaying this material into an arty whodunit cheapens the real history invoked.
December 24, 2019 | Full Review…
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