The Brown Bunny (2003)
Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's hard to deny that Gallo has caught the freedom and melancholy, the intoxicating aimlessness, the lonely twilight beauty of a solo road trip in a way that no previous filmmaker quite has.
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Variety Derek Elley
An astonishing improvement on the original version. With 27 minutes excised, pic emerges from its mind-numbing undergrowth as a memorable -- if still highly specialized -- exercise in personal, '70s-style American filmmaking, with a cohesive feel and rhythm that marks Gallo as a distinctive indie talent.
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Village Voice J. Hoberman
It's genuinely elemental, embarrassingly sincere. You can't accuse Gallo of pandering to anyone but himself. Not just a one-man band, he is his own entourage -- and likely to remain so. And that anguished solipsism seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject.
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The A.V. Club Scott Tobias
If the independent film world were littered with alleged disasters like The Brown Bunny, the scene would be far richer for it.
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The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Neither an atrocity nor a revelation, The Brown Bunny is a very watchable, often beautiful-looking attempt by Mr. Gallo to reproduce the kind of loosely structured mood pieces that found American and select foreign-language cinemas of the 1960's and 70's often at their most adventurous.
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Gallo's earlier work suggests he has directorial talent, but here it's buried beneath too much ego to be detectible.
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
The Brown Bunny is one long, self-indulgent bore topped off with a hard-core porn scene featuring Gallo and co-star Chloë Sevigny.
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Wall Street Journal
An excruciatingly embarrassing display of ego and ineptitude.
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation.
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
In his second feature as a director, Gallo acts as writer, director, producer, star, cinematographer, production designer and editor. Thus, the failure is all his.
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