Overview
Genre :
DramaRelease Date :
June 08, 2012 (NY)Director :
Todd SolondzStarring :
Justin Bartha, Selma Blair, Mia Farrow, Donna Murphy, Christopher Walken, Aasif Mandvi, Jordan Gelber, Aasif Mandvi, Tyler Maynard, Zachary Booth
REVIEWS RATE:
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“..writer and director Todd Solondz has created a distinctive set of films about losers who face steep challenges to keep their souls alive..”
by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat [Spirituality and Practice]
“..we lose the fascination he holds for Solondz and the film becomes rather aimless..”
by David Noh [Film Journal International]
“..the movie strays too far into fantasy-Abe suffers mightily-but Solondz still has an ear and an eye for a specific hell in the real world..”
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York]
“..performance non-art..”
by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine]
“..on the surface, a comedy, preferring quick, barbed exchanges to thundering speeches..”
by A.O. Scott [New York Times]
“..it's a nightmarish but poetic moment in which the film's themes come strikingly together..”
by Alison Willmore [Movieline]
“..despite its flaws, Dark Horse largely succeeds as yet another installment in Todd Solondz's career-long examination of the lust for love and security among the deeply damaged..”
by Ian Buckwalter [NPR]
“..Dark Horse is neither incisively black-comic nor particularly attuned to human behavior-proof that some directors, at least, do end up the way they started out..”
by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice]
“..Abe's day-to-day trials may eventually seem like cheap daytime TV, but Gelber and Solondz know how to nail the uncomfortably funny optimism shadowing American desperation..”
by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News]
Review rate : B
“..a visual joke there -and the fantasy scenes both get into Gelber's head and reveal a movie in conversation with itself..”
“..a visual joke there -and the fantasy scenes both get into Gelber's head and reveal a movie in conversation with itself..”
by Scott Tobias [AV Club]
“..a return to form after Life During Wartime and Palindromes, which seemed like experiments in style more than anything else..”
by Marshall Fine [Huffington Post]
“..a hair too brief at 84 minutes to gain the breadth or impact it deserves..”
by Dustin Putman [DustinPutman.com]
