Dark Horse Reviews

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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 ]

• a visual joke there -and the fantasy scenes both get into Gelber's head and reveal a movie in conversation with itself

  Review rate : B 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 ]

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