Works not primarily because it's a strange and original brew, but because it accomplishes its goals without seeming to force things. The blending of reality with dreams, memories, and imagination is done flawlessly.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie does not propose to be a comedy, a musical, a film noir story or a medical account. It proposes to be a subjective view of suffering, and the ways this character tries to cope with it. Understand that, and the pieces fall into place.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Robert Downey Jr. is great in a role no one less magnetically reckless would dare approach.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
I had the sense that Gordon's ambitious, if awkwardly assembled, film had so many terrific ingredients that he felt compelled to use them all. In this case, alas, more is less.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Somehow, by a narrow margin, the film doesn't quite make it. Potter recolored his work a little more sunnily, and it is, perhaps, too compressed; it needs TV's room to digress.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Lurches when it should glide, shouts when it should whisper and mumbles when it should sing.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Leslie Camhi
The problems come in the shadow world, where everything's a jumble, where Dark's compositional strategy ("all clues and no solutions") eventually becomes wearing, and Gordon's direction can't hold it all together.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Too flat and academic to come alive. The film's lack of dimension tends to render much of it banal, and Downey's lengthy harangues, as beautifully wrought as they are, are overly literary, which serves to make this intricate film seem all the more contrived.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The question that has to be asked is: Why? The original six-part BBC ''Singing Detective'' remains one of the signal achievements in the history of television -- really -- and its release on DVD this past spring puts it easily within reach of the curious.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
At once daring and hackneyed, absorbing and off-putting, a triumph of one sort and, more lastingly, a failure of another.Read Full Review »
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