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Critics' Reviews

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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Seeps with melancholy, old wounds, repressed anger, lust. That it is also caustically funny and heartwarming is miraculous.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Inspired, sublime fun.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Megan Rosenfeld
Anyone interested in serious film should absolutely not miss it.Read Full Review »
80
Salon.com: Charles Taylor
A small movie, to be sure, but it's also a thoroughly original one.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: A.O. Scott
A sneaky and smart film noir.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A black-comedy gem.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Desmond Ryan
A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare, it deserves not to fall through the cracks.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A lot of this is quite well done, but Bromell has a tendency to have too schematic an aesthetic agenda for his story: treating film noir like kabuki is not necessarily the best way to go, no matter how beautifully you do it.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
Steeped in metaphor as it is, Panic offers a more naturalistic analysis of male midlife crisis than the grotesquely overpraised "American Beauty."Read Full Review »
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