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Comedy drama about a man whose search for his lost dog takes him on a journey that spirals into the absurd. Cast:Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner, Regan Burns, Mark Burnham, Arden Myrin, Maile Flanagan, Todd Giebenhain, Barry Alan Levine, Zia Harris, LeShay N. Tomlinson, Price Carson, Gary ValentineDirector:Quentin DupieuxRelease Date:March 29, 2013DVD Release:June 11, 2013From:Drafthouse FilmsLength:1 hr 34 min
Wrong played in key cities to good not great reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Andrew O'Hehir wrote for Salon, "...profoundly strange.... As this wry, dry and glittering near-masterpiece proclaims, life is full of wrongness, but also full of mystery and wonder." More Reviews Below...
Kate Erbland, MSN Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "Dupieux crafts creative and abstract trips that are more than worth going on, even if they're fantastically difficult to explain to anyone who has yet to join the club."(See all of Kate Erbland's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 343 words, 04/01/13
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (10 Reviews)
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: FAIR "...embracing Opposites Day as a screenwriting principle.... its misguided flatness is perhaps its fatal flaw, not so much deadpan or existential as just monotonous."(See all of Nicolas Rapold's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 380 words, 03/29/13
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: OUTSTANDING(cg) "...boldly weird... delivers one surprise after another.... deserves to be seen once for enjoyment and then again for enlightenment."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 245 words, 04/01/13
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Dupieux seems unable to focus, as if he is just switching channels, haphazardly stringing together one out-there idea or image after another.... muddled..."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 03/29/13
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "...flimsy, glib, occasionally pretty funny.... What keeps the movie afloat is Quentin Dupieux's penchant for absurdist gags -- funny, surreal conceits and concepts."(See all of Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 609 words, 03/29/13
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...sweetly unnerving... the film's heady buzz is invigorating... there are substantial pleasures -- and laughs -- to be found in all its real-life-just-gone-sour strangeness."(See all of Alan Scherstuhl's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 753 words, 03/27/13
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: MODERATE(cg) "...it's not always worth the effort, not even for Twin Peaksian types who are always on the lookout for a new David Lynch acolyte to mess with their minds."(See all of Linda Barnard's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 338 words, 04/19/13
Adam Nayman, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD(cg) "...there's a winning confidence to the filmmaking -- Dupieux favours nervy close-ups and blurred foregrounds -- and some real soul in Jack Plotnick's performance."(See all of Adam Nayman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 619 words, 04/19/13
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...defies any attempt to connect to the characters or the material. You can try to laugh at it or laugh with it, but it just squats there taking a dump in the road."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 196 words, 04/18/13
KEY CITIES (3 Reviews)
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT)(cg) "The key to making a movie like this work is for the characters to invest themselves completely in the weird little universe Dupieux has created for them, and they do."(See all of Bill Goodykoontz's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 481 words, 03/29/13
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE(cg) "...absurdist... imaginative.... Just park your linear thought processes at the door and enjoy the humorous moments, even if they don't always add up."(See all of David Lewis's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 54 words, 03/29/13
Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD(cg) "While there are gems of absurd humor throughout, it never quite rises to the level of madness dictated by its title.... content generally to amuse rather than amaze."(See all of Marc Mohan's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 230 words, 04/05/13
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (6 Reviews)
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...sweetly unnerving... the film's heady buzz is invigorating... there are substantial pleasures -- and laughs -- to be found in all its real-life-just-gone-sour strangeness."(See all of Alan Scherstuhl's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 753 words, 03/27/13
Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: EXCELLENT(cg) "...an impressive piece of filmmaking not just because of the way in which it captures the absurd, but in how it's able to maintain it for the entire runtime."(See all of Eric Eisenberg's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 626 words, 03/31/13
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: GOOD(cg) "...strikingly pretty. It's easy for viewers to get caught up in its mild pleasures, if they can acknowledge, Dupieux-style, that they're doing it for no reason."(See all of Tasha Robinson's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 513 words, 03/28/13
Jesse Cataldo, Slant: MODERATE(cg) "...fitfully amusing but ultimately frivolous... surrealism in its most basic form, avoiding genuine discomfort and revealing nothing beyond the painfully obvious."(See all of Jesse Cataldo's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 1,353 words, 03/25/13
Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...defies any attempt to connect to the characters or the material. You can try to laugh at it or laugh with it, but it just squats there taking a dump in the road."(See all of Norman Wilner's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 196 words, 04/18/13
HIGHBROW PRESS (4 Reviews)
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: FAIR "...embracing Opposites Day as a screenwriting principle.... its misguided flatness is perhaps its fatal flaw, not so much deadpan or existential as just monotonous."(See all of Nicolas Rapold's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 380 words, 03/29/13
Joel Arnold, NPR: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Dupieux is clearly having an incredible amount of fun. Whether 'no reason' is reason enough to strap in for the ride is less clear."(See all of Joel Arnold's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 580 words, 03/29/13
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Dupieux seems unable to focus, as if he is just switching channels, haphazardly stringing together one out-there idea or image after another.... muddled..."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 03/29/13
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...profoundly strange.... As this wry, dry and glittering near-masterpiece proclaims, life is full of wrongness, but also full of mystery and wonder."(See all of Andrew O'Hehir's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 852 words, 03/26/13
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Dennis Harvey, Variety: MODERATE "The performers all have their moments.... But the material gives them limited opportunities, and Dupieux doesn't seem to encourage much improvisational riffing."(See all of Dennis Harvey's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 505 words, 01/24/12
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "Every now and then Dupieux goes one 'wrong' too far.... But even the little missteps tend to be funny, and therefore forgivable."(See all of John DeFore's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 408 words, 01/28/12
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Dupieux seems unable to focus, as if he is just switching channels, haphazardly stringing together one out-there idea or image after another.... muddled..."(See all of Mark Olsen's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 239 words, 03/29/13
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: FAIR "...embracing Opposites Day as a screenwriting principle.... its misguided flatness is perhaps its fatal flaw, not so much deadpan or existential as just monotonous."(See all of Nicolas Rapold's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 380 words, 03/29/13
19.5 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Wrong's reviews are separated by an average 19.5 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.
Coverage:Wrong's reviews cover 23.6% of potential readers (average is 67.9%). Volume:The film's reviews total 10,355 words involume (average is 20,194 words). Length:The film's reviews average 493 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 15 Days Before Release (Norm is 1.2 Release)
Wrong's reviews on average broke 15 days 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 Wrong's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
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