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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's like a version of 'Cinema Paradiso' where all the murders were saved up by a censor and strung together for a bloodbath.... with all due respect, I expected a better time." (Read the full review...) 570 words, 01/06/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Mr. [Takeshi] Kitano's immaculate compositions and eccentric flourishes are part of the film's sustained, muted pleasures and are often in service to some underlying meaning." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 12/02/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "After two viewings, I'm still not entirely clear on the tangled maze of loyalties and betrayals that connects all of [director Takeshi] Kitano's mobsters..." (Read the full review...) 87 words, 12/02/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...low-key and offhanded in its mastery.... Kitano's sense of pacing is so precise, at once restrained and relentless, that the film becomes a vortex, pulling audiences in deeper and deeper." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 12/02/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a return to form by Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano ('Sonatine')." (Read the full review...) 170 words, 12/02/11 Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine: GOOD "Perhaps, after all the idiosyncratic soul he's brought to his gangster movies over the years, Kitano has finally decided to give the audience the purest form of what they want. 'Outrage' isn't a movie; it's a purge." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 12/05/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's like a version of 'Cinema Paradiso' where all the murders were saved up by a censor and strung together for a bloodbath.... with all due respect, I expected a better time." (Read the full review...) 570 words, 01/06/12 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Stark and brutal... a litany of startlingly violent set pieces filmed in [director Takeshi] Kitano's decorous, aestheticized style, gunshots blooming like carnations.... Like one of its yakuza bigs, 'Outrage' commands respect but no affection." (Read the full review...) 217 words, 11/30/11 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: MODERATE "...the sheer absurdity of this over-the-top spectacle makes for fine black comedy, but well before the finale, [Takeshi] Kitano's empty parade of functionally anonymous butchery becomes monotonous, numbing, even dull. He's reached an aesthetic dead end." (Read the full review...) 138 words, 11/04/10
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Perched intriguingly on the line separating gangster flick and formalist satire... [it] is not Takeshi Kitano's best work.... mostly a deadpan comedy about the idiocy that men do.... the filmmaking is cool, watchful, and ultimately too distanced." (Read the full review...) 438 words, 12/09/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the film itself feels a little punch drunk, particularly as the feuds escalate. Who's trying to knock off whom? It's hard to keep track, particularly with so many assassins in identical black suits running around." (Read the full review...) 463 words, 12/02/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...doesn't add up to much: All the slo-mo gunfights and nicely framed corpse shots in the world can't compensate for a lack of well-realized characters. Even a half-realized character would do - someone to care about, if only for a moment or two..." (Read the full review...) 385 words, 12/09/11 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...adequately entertaining, with more than enough cringe-inducing violence and cruel humor to please the average American moviegoer. But true Kitano fans will find its title sadly ironic." (Read the full review...) 327 words, 12/16/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "There are no heroes, no happy endings, things just go from bad to worse, although they do so with no lack of energy or ingenuity. It's a gangster story, told well, with no punches pulled." (Read the full review...) 361 words, 01/27/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Stark and brutal... a litany of startlingly violent set pieces filmed in [director Takeshi] Kitano's decorous, aestheticized style, gunshots blooming like carnations.... Like one of its yakuza bigs, 'Outrage' commands respect but no affection." (Read the full review...) 217 words, 11/30/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "When it comes to ruthlessness, the yakuzas in Takeshi Kitano's slick bloodbath make the Corleones look like the Brady Bunch.... A masterpiece of denied expectations -- every act of vengeance happens too late to satisfy but just in time to spark more." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 12/08/11 Mike D'Angelo, LA Weekly: MODERATE "...the sheer absurdity of this over-the-top spectacle makes for fine black comedy, but well before the finale, [Takeshi] Kitano's empty parade of functionally anonymous butchery becomes monotonous, numbing, even dull. He's reached an aesthetic dead end." (Read the full review...) 138 words, 11/04/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: MODERATE (cg) "The plot is little more than a series of clockwork machinations that maneuver a handful of characters from one bloodbath to the next.... compelling to watch until it becomes exhausting." (Read the full review...) 426 words, 12/01/11 Glenn Heath Jr., Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...one volatile and unsettling revenge play.... [Takeshi] Kitano's pristine direction and smooth camera movement always juxtapose the unsettling action with a beautifully crisp formalism that makes the film increasingly disturbing." (Read the full review...) 289 words, 11/14/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...[an] intricately choreographed saga of yakuza warfare.... [Director Takeshi Kitano's] sense of style is very much in evidence here, and so is his sense of humor." (Read the full review...) 238 words, 12/02/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Mr. [Takeshi] Kitano's immaculate compositions and eccentric flourishes are part of the film's sustained, muted pleasures and are often in service to some underlying meaning." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 12/02/11 Scott Tobias, NPR: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "The longer 'Outrage' goes on, the more distance it gets from its core themes about the moral chaos of gangsterism. It becomes a film about cool killings, which may satisfy the bloodlust of some Kitano fans but hardly amounts to a return to form." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 12/01/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...low-key and offhanded in its mastery.... Kitano's sense of pacing is so precise, at once restrained and relentless, that the film becomes a vortex, pulling audiences in deeper and deeper." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 12/02/11
Rob Nelson, Daily Variety: OUTSTANDING "Focusing on the absurdly ultraviolent tit-for-tat tussles among a trio of Tokyo crime families, the film is a beautifully staged marvel that confidently reasserts [director Takeshi] Kitano's considerable cinematic gifts." (Read the full review...) 671 words, 05/16/10 Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play, 'Outrage' is Takeshi Kitano's first yakuza flick since 'Brother' (2000), and arguably his best film in a decade." (Read the full review...) 499 words, 10/14/10 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...low-key and offhanded in its mastery.... Kitano's sense of pacing is so precise, at once restrained and relentless, that the film becomes a vortex, pulling audiences in deeper and deeper." (Read the full review...) 206 words, 12/02/11 Patrick Z. McGavin, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "[Takeshi Kitano's] best films took on the received ideas of the gangster movie. His previous movies brilliantly alternated engagement and detachment that confounded our sense of anticipation. 'Outrage' too often is content for the repetitive and unfeeling." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 05/19/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "Mr. [Takeshi] Kitano's immaculate compositions and eccentric flourishes are part of the film's sustained, muted pleasures and are often in service to some underlying meaning." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 12/02/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...[an] intricately choreographed saga of yakuza warfare.... [Director Takeshi Kitano's] sense of style is very much in evidence here, and so is his sense of humor." (Read the full review...) 238 words, 12/02/11
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