Critic Reviews
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Korine is finding his way toward artistic greatness by searching his soul. It's possible that the man in the mirror is him.
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Premiere Glenn Kenny
What to make of it all? Hard to say. Just to take in the fact that its soundtrack is made up of music by both J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls is to understand that this is a picture that's divided against itself in a way that's perhaps too hermetic to be comprehended.
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63
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Chicago Tribune
Like so many lovely cinematic dreams, Mister Lonely inevitably descends into nightmare, with an unsettlingly grim conclusion that, again, seems more imagistic than idea-driven.
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60
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New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Not all of the movie works - in fact, huge portions don't - but there are enough striking moments to make a lasting impact. How ironic: In this fairy-tale of arrested development, Korine has created his most mature movie yet.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
An odd, desperate film, lost in its own audacity, and yet there are passages of surreal beauty and preposterous invention that I have to admire. The film doesn't work, and indeed seems to have no clear idea of what its job is, and yet (sigh) there is the temptation to forgive its trespasses simply because it is utterly, if pointlessly, original.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
As a work of entertainment, as a cohesive narrative and as an artistic whole, there's no way to call it anything but an on-balance average effort. Yet there's nothing remotely average about the movie's warm spirit, its imaginative and arresting cinematography or its handful of unique, brilliant scenes and shrewd, bizarre performances.
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50
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Decidedly loopy and nonlinear, Mister Lonely is precious and artsy, but there are moments when Korine's, er, unique vision brings something bold and beautiful to the table.
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38
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TV Guide Ken Fox
The film is really little more than an array of sometimes imaginative images.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Some films, like some people, wear their artsy pretensions on their sleeve, and there really isn't much going on beneath - it's just a posturing armband wrapped around a plain arm. Welcome, then, to the emptiness of Mister Lonely, a movie that goes to extraordinary lengths to say ordinary things.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
None of the faux icons comes close to being a character. Instead, they are contrasted with a group of nuns who skydive without parachutes. Could this possibly be a metaphor for Korine's filmmaking? It certainly goes splat.
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