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- Genre : Drama
- Release Date : March 16, 2012
- MPAA Rating : -
- Duration : 100 minute(s)
- Production Budget : -
- Studio : Tribeca Film
- Official Site : http://www.detachment-film.com/
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when the movie shuts out the background noise, its message is loud and clear
by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]
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there isn't a cynical moment in this overblown drama, but it feels personal in a way that perhaps shouldn't also become political
by Ella Taylor [NPR ]
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there are multiple mini-narratives that run through Detachment and all of them are worthy of your attention
by Daniel Hubschman [Hollywood.Com ]
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the younger performers make equally strong impressions
by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]
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the overload of tricks that take us out of the story with animation
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
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the movie is tricked out with arty embellishments that include the insertion of crude blackboard sketches of nooses and guillotines
by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]
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the film would be better if Kaye hadn't included a Taxi Driver subplot in which Brody rescues a teen hooker in fishnets
Review rate : B
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
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the director's trademark shrillness renders its dialogue in all-caps hysteria
by Bill Weber [Slant Magazine ]
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seem like stock archetypes, at least until you actually sit down and watch the film
by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]
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one big scream, cliched and hardly credible as an oblique call to civility
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]
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has everything you'd expect in a student film, but it's instead the product of a grizzled 60-year-old veteran
by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]
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establishes a drifting, narcotized visual tone that's apt and effective, but the reactionary script brings out the worst in its impressive cast
by Mark Holcomb [Village Voice ]
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drives a coffin nail through a noble profession with such ruthless virulence that it makes no point at all
by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]
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delivers a story that lacks nuance, and mixes badly with Kaye's impatient edits, Dutch angles and extreme close-ups
by Ronnie Scheib [Variety ]
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bringing credibility to scenes that often don't deserve it and making the film watchable even at its most absurd extremes
Review rate : B-
by Sam Adams [AV Club ]
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although ugliness seeps through scene after scene here, I remained totally absorbed throughout the film
by Betty Jo Tucker [ReelTalk Movie Reviews ]