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RUST AND BONE (DE ROUILLE ET D'OS)Movie Reviews
French language drama about the bond between a single father who aspires to be a professional fighter and a whale trainer who suffers a disabling accident. Cast:Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Celine Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners, Jean-Michel CorreiaDirector:Jacques AudiardRelease Date:November 23, 2012DVD Release:March 19, 2013From:Sony ClassicsRating:RLength:1 hr 55 min
MARCH 19, 2013
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os), Very Good Reviews Key Cities
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) played in key cities to very good reviews. • Colin Covert wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "...effective and moving.... The gritty, unaffected romance is elevated by a pair of beautiful tragicomic performances." More Reviews Below...
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) Positive Reviews (48 Reviews, reviews below)
Mary Corliss, Time: GOOD "Schoenaerts exudes a masculinity that is both effortless and troubled... Cotillard demonstrates again her eerie ability to write complex feelings on her face..."(See all of Mary Corliss's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,052 words, 11/26/12
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD(cg) "...isn't as powerful as Audiard's epic, gripping 'A Prophet' or as thrilling as 'Read My Lips.' But it has a quiet intensity and, ultimately, a hard-won sense of optimism."(See all of Christy Lemire's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 483 words, 11/20/12
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE(cg) "Cotillard has what it takes to play a woman who feels that she's lost everything. But she's forced to flail and mood-swing from scene to scene... an insult to the disabled..."(See all of Owen Gleiberman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 168 words, 11/23/12
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD(cg) "Jacques Audiard ('A Prophet') probes the psyches of two people in crisis. His hypnotic film means to shake you, and does... Marion Cotillard is astonishing."(See all of Peter Travers's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 149 words, 11/23/12
Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Cotillard gives an exquisite performance... [yet] the film tries hard to be starkly unsentimental, but ends up feeling manipulative and conventional."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 307 words, 12/07/12
Kat Murphy, MSN Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Audiard massages our emotional responses with an all-too-practiced hand. Even his mix of socio-economic 'realism' with soap opera feels calculated..."(See all of Kat Murphy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 916 words, 11/23/12
James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD(cg) "...poignant without being mawkish... See it for Marion Cotillard's amazing performance and Stephanie's complex and credible character arc..."(See all of James Berardinelli's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 933 words, 01/01/13
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (12 Reviews)
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing. Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating..."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 933 words, 11/23/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...fearlessly emotional... a powerhouse. It's the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and only with actors who are daring..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 855 words, 12/07/12
Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE(cg) "...a quintessentially French effort to combine pugilism and sentimentality. But if your big lug is a big jerk, you're not doing it right."(See all of Kyle Smith's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 357 words, 11/21/12
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE(cg) "Audiard hits his theme over and over, like a punch-drunk middleweight: All of us are damaged. We're all animals under the skin. We all need love..."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 544 words, 05/18/12
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Matthias Schoenaerts, a 35-year-old Belgian unfamiliar to most Americans, is a revelation.... one of the most convincing romances to come along in years."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 297 words, 01/11/13
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING(cg) "An unusual and unsettling love story... shows once again that Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard is as close to perfect as any female has ever been onscreen."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 532 words, 12/21/12
Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD(cg) "By turns brutal and tender... a bullet train of heightened melodrama that refuses to derail. Of course, like all melodrama, it requires a major suspension of disbelief."(See all of Rick Groen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 688 words, 12/21/12
Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: GOOD "...manipulative, surface-oriented, impressionistic... it's plainly about surfaces -- the ways in which impressions can be both misleading and not without truth..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 846 words, 05/17/12
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Some will dismiss the film because of its hoary contrivances, particularly during the gut-wrenching climax, but they're not giving the brilliant director his due."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 138 words, 12/20/12
KEY CITIES (13 Reviews)
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...defies categorization, slips convenient genre boundaries, and leaves viewers feeling haunted and inspired in equal measure... unforgettable."(See all of Ann Hornaday's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 546 words, 12/21/12
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Audiard, who made the uncompromising prison saga 'A Prophet,' is like a gritty, realist Douglas Sirk... a film thrillingly raw and essential, life-affirming, sublime."(See all of Steven Rea's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 572 words, 12/21/12
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD(cg) "...effective and moving.... The gritty, unaffected romance is elevated by a pair of beautiful tragicomic performances."(See all of Colin Covert's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 494 words, 12/21/12
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT(cg) "...dares to show its ugly side... Cotillard and Schoenaerts breathe life into it, making it a satisfying story of yearning and, eventually, satisfaction."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 580 words, 12/21/12
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD(cg) "Audiard clearly loves his crazy lovers, but as a director he lacks the craziness that would ennoble them.... The leads save it, particularly Cotillard..."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 607 words, 12/21/12
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: OUTSTANDING(cg) "This is not a storybook love affair.... It's great, rich melodrama, ably helped along by its stars.... It's also an interesting movie, thematically..."(See all of Stephen Whitty's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 674 words, 11/23/12
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...a tough movie about tough people for a tough audience.... no one who sees 'Rust and Bone' will ever forget this movie or its people."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 670 words, 12/21/12
Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...feels organic in its casual unfolding... it doesn't look like a romance, and it doesn't behave like one either -- it resists, at every turn, becoming something pretty."(See all of Moira Macdonald's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 393 words, 01/11/13
Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT(cg) "...often as tender and wryly funny as it is brutal and frank... Audiard's craft is arresting, and the film hums with beauty, vigor and blood."(See all of Stan Hall's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 368 words, 01/11/13
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...virtually impossible to categorize.... Cotillard gets so deep inside the character that it's exhilarating.... Schoenaerts matches her for burning intensity."(See all of Calvin Wilson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 291 words, 01/11/13
Sean Daly, Tampa Bay Times: EXCELLENT(cg) "...a love story without romance, a bloody-knuckled fight picture absent a clear victor.... This is an impressive piece of moviemaking; it's just not a pleasant one..."(See all of Sean Daly's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 631 words, 01/17/13
Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...has some lovely scenes -- but it seems to wander off in search of something it already has, and in wandering, it loses its way."(See all of Tom Long's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 276 words, 01/11/13
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...stirs honest emotion. The film peters out more than it ends, but Cotillard makes you feel every bit of Stéphanie's difficult recovery..."(See all of Connie Ogle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 485 words, 01/11/13
Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...overwrought melodrama... Cotillard's performance is a match for the histrionics, but the film still could cut a lot of fat."(See all of Peter Keough's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 168 words, 12/20/12
Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: GOOD "...manipulative, surface-oriented, impressionistic... it's plainly about surfaces -- the ways in which impressions can be both misleading and not without truth..."(See all of Karina Longworth's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 846 words, 05/17/12
Elena Razlogova, Pop Matters: VERY GOOD(cg) "As they negotiate any number of obstacles, the lovers test one another repeatedly.... Their mutual will to survive makes this movie romance remarkable."(See all of Elena Razlogova's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 330 words, 05/25/12
Lórien Haynes, Movieline: OUTSTANDING(cg) " 'Rust and Bone' is essential. It's life and death. It's like fucking at a funeral.... it shows you that love is the only transcendent force we possess."(See all of Lórien Haynes's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 828 words, 09/07/12
Jesse Cataldo, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...passes ostensible exploitation fodder (double amputee finds sexual reawaking in the arms of a rough-around-the-edges he-man) through a high-toned prestige filter."(See all of Jesse Cataldo's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 508 words, 11/16/12
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING(cg) "Some will dismiss the film because of its hoary contrivances, particularly during the gut-wrenching climax, but they're not giving the brilliant director his due."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 138 words, 12/20/12
Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT(cg) "Cotillard and Schoenarts play proud, combative, and irresponsible lovers who seem as likely to hit each other as kiss each other... compelling, unpredictable..."(See all of Curt Holman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 550 words, 01/16/13
MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: MODERATE(cg) "The rather depressingly realistic approach to adult relationships is, perhaps ironically, the best reason to see this hard-edged drama... piles on grottiness and misery..."(See all of MaryAnn Johanson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 365 words, 11/06/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing. Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating..."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 933 words, 11/23/12
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...glitters and flares with the urge to renew those things -- limbs, knuckles, lovemaking, and parental bonds -- which are easily fractured..."(See all of Anthony Lane's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 470 words, 11/26/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...fearlessly emotional... a powerhouse. It's the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and only with actors who are daring..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 855 words, 12/07/12
Dana Stevens, Slate: EXCELLENT "...gritty, transporting... triumphs over its own potential hokeyness in no small part because of the frank physical chemistry between its two hugely charismatic stars..."(See all of Dana Stevens's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 852 words, 11/30/12
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...vibrant, violent and ferociously sexy.... a sizzling celebration of the power of music, the power of images, and the electric, destructive power of the human body."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,197 words, 11/23/12
MOVIE INDUSTRY (6 Reviews)
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD "...unabashedly melodramatic... it represents the direction in which romantic pics must evolve lest increasingly jaded auds dismiss them as phony."(See all of Peter Debruge's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 773 words, 05/17/12
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "Cotillard and Schoenaerts give heavily internalized performances marked by sporadic physical outbursts involving athletics and sex."(See all of Todd McCarthy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 737 words, 05/17/12
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...fearlessly emotional... a powerhouse. It's the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and only with actors who are daring..."(See all of Kenneth Turan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 855 words, 12/07/12
Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT(cg) "...a tense and fragile study of two radically different people linked by a bitter and perverse tragic inevitability... a work of violent ruptures, physically and psychologically."(See all of Emanuel Levy's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 837 words, 05/18/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "...a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing. Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating..."(See all of A.O. Scott's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 933 words, 11/23/12
19.2 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)'s reviews are separated by an average 19.2 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) (48 reviews) Roll over dots for each review
Coverage:Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)'s reviews cover 89.5% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 26,416 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 550 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) Coverage, Volume & Length (48 Reviews, reviews below)
Reviews Broke 18.8 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)'s reviews on average broke 18.8 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.2 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os) (48 reviews, click on bars for reviews)
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