Bean's commitment to serious theological examination is exciting, Gosling's performance is riveting, and this fiery and imperfect feature shines as a demonstration of independent filmmaking at its most uncompromising.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
I confess I don't fully understand Danny's (or the movie's) zigs and zags, but I was glued to the thing anyway -- it has an inexplicable inner logic -- and I admire Bean for refusing to settle into any easy groove.Read Full Review »
Bean has built a bonfire of contradictions and the ensuing conflagration illuminates a bit of the world.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
It is a challenging film, if not always a narratively cohesive one.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Matthew Gilbert
An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The film's anti-Semitism is articulate but wrong, and the conflict between what the hero says and what he believes (or does not want to believe) is at the very center of the story.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Admirably ambitious and utterly unsparing, but as credible as the arc of Danny's odyssey is in itself, the all-important need to evoke a profound sense of the enigmatic and paradoxical in relation to Danny's fate has eluded Bean.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Julie Salamon
This willfully provocative film portrait offers lots of raging, vulgarity and shock but little insight into the character's psychopathology.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
A bad movie -- really a terrible movie -- with a daring idea behind it. And it's had the sort of crummy luck that, no matter what you think of it, can get you steamed.Read Full Review »
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