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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an overdramatized study in dire family dysfunction." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 12/03/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a spellbinding true-crime story... throws so many narrative balls in the air that you may struggle to catch up. It's worth the effort. Jarecki is a master of the telling detail." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 12/02/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...this story apparently did happen in one form or another, and the most incredible details of David's transformation are specifically based on facts revealed during two murder investigations." (Read the full review...) 734 words, 12/23/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...although deeply flawed, the film is at times compelling, even if it seems as if a reel is missing." (Read the full review...) 929 words, 12/02/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Jarecki gets much right in this movie, his fiction feature debut, but he never invests it with urgency.... you are left with the feeling that his principal goal was reopening the case." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 12/03/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...ends up wrestling itself into a corner, though it's saved by a corrosive central performance from Ryan Gosling and a disconcertingly hypnotic feel." (Read the full review...) 449 words, 12/03/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: FAIR "...if there is one thing this strange and creepy film does well it is remind us of just what a talented actress Kirsten Dunst is.... a case of letting the facts get in the way." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 12/10/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...another memorable portrait of a dysfunctional family over three decades." (Read the full review...) 520 words, 12/03/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...thoroughly compelling. But it also feels like one man's attempt to try another in the court of cinema, or perhaps correct the course of justice itself." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 12/10/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...this story apparently did happen in one form or another, and the most incredible details of David's transformation are specifically based on facts revealed during two murder investigations." (Read the full review...) 734 words, 12/23/10 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...it's tempting to call it an upscale version of straight-to-cable 'True Crime' crap -- only that makes it sound more entertaining than it actually is." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 12/01/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...as absorbing and detailed as it is, it never manages to levitate beyond tawdry movie-of-the-week voyeurism." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 12/10/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a 'true crime' drama with speculative scenarios and a kind of deliberately murky aura. It's a strange, thrilling tale begrimed by bad memories, by bad deeds." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 12/17/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "The chameleonic Gosling is completely convincing as this empty shell of a man... he grabs our emotions: He makes us hate the sight of him. That's not necessarily a good thing." (Read the full review...) 539 words, 01/21/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...thoroughly engrossing, a roman a clef that chillingly ponders a puzzle and suggests solutions outlandish enough to be stranger than anything Hollywood, on its own, could make up." (Read the full review...) 537 words, 12/03/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has the eerie power of a nightmare.... Ryan Gosling is riveting as David Marks... keeps us on our toes while keeping us on edge." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 12/22/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "Gosling's Marks is a tremendously touching creation... Dunst has never been so good..." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 12/22/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...more of a sad recounting than a full-of-life film.... would have worked better in the longer format of a miniseries. Or, better yet, a documentary." (Read the full review...) 389 words, 01/07/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "There's a nicely maintained tension as the story progresses, though Jarecki has a tendency to undercut it with too-melodramatic music and weirdly dark interiors." (Read the full review...) 393 words, 12/17/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "...a heavy, moody film... the quality of the craft doesn't draw you in, nor does Gosling's aloof and inward performance as a sociopathic creep with little charm." (Read the full review...) 229 words, 01/07/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "By adding ambiguity to a well-known murder case, the movie sacrifices dramatic intensity and the compelling performances of its two leads.... There's a fascinating story here for a bolder filmmaker..." (Read the full review...) 359 words, 12/24/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: MODERATE (cg) "...it pulls you in the same way a ridiculous sculpture or piece of art does. You watch it in stunned disbelief, wondering how a movie that started so strongly devolved into something so absurd." (Read the full review...) 634 words, 01/21/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...it's tempting to call it an upscale version of straight-to-cable 'True Crime' crap -- only that makes it sound more entertaining than it actually is." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 12/01/10 Mack Rawden, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...a hollow mess of wasted and wonderful acting performances. There's a great story in here somewhere, it just needed a liberal editor or an extra hour and a half of screen time." (Read the full review...) 884 words, 12/07/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Jarecki can't decide whether to opt for the open-ended inquiry of a non-fiction film or the resolved storytelling of Hollywood genre movie, so he winds up stranded in between." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 12/23/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a lurid story that includes cross-dressing, suicide, schizophrenia, and an almost Shakespearean level of family tragedy and treachery.... [but] it's disappointingly timid." (Read the full review...) 382 words, 12/02/10 Andrew Schenker, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...suffers from the belief that the lead character is fascinating enough to carry the movie by himself. But it takes more than a little ambiguity and amateur-hour psychoanalysis..." (Read the full review...) 860 words, 11/28/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...a queasy combination of speculation and dramatic invention with the ring of half-truth... co-stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst add as much color as they can -- not much..." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 12/10/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Jarecki gets much right in this movie, his fiction feature debut, but he never invests it with urgency.... you are left with the feeling that his principal goal was reopening the case." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 12/03/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...if there is one thing this strange and creepy film does well it is remind us of just what a talented actress Kirsten Dunst is.... a case of letting the facts get in the way." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 12/10/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: WEAK "...feverishly creepy but dramatically miscalculated... plays out in the emotionally detached but sensationalistic, overripe manner of a tabloid freakshow." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 11/30/10 Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "...a sharp and unsettling depiction of human mysteries and the elusiveness of justice... the film casts an effective, deepening chill." (Read the full review...) 833 words, 11/29/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...if there is one thing this strange and creepy film does well it is remind us of just what a talented actress Kirsten Dunst is.... a case of letting the facts get in the way." (Read the full review...) 834 words, 12/10/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: FAIR (cg) "...has many intriguing elements and a dark, noirish sensibility in its treatment desire, family, obsession, drug addiction, and murder, but it is poorly directed and edited..." (Read the full review...) 428 words, 12/02/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Mr. Jarecki gets much right in this movie, his fiction feature debut, but he never invests it with urgency.... you are left with the feeling that his principal goal was reopening the case." (Read the full review...) 888 words, 12/03/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: WEAK "...a queasy combination of speculation and dramatic invention with the ring of half-truth... co-stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst add as much color as they can -- not much..." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 12/10/10
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