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Name: 4
Genre: Drama
Released: April 7, 2006
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 72

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Leisure Time Features | Release Date: April 7, 2006

Summary: Three strangers meet in a late night Moscow bar and spin incredible stories about themselves -- all of which turn out to be lies. (Leisure Time Features)

Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 126 min

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V.A. Musetto

It's not always clear exactly what's happening in this dark tale, full of barking dogs and slabs of meat. But you won't be able to take your eyes from the screen; nor will you quickly forget this fiercely original eye-popper. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

It's another blast of vibrant, vicious, gloomy electricity from the always-surprising Russian film scene, and the beginning of an important career. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

As opaque as it is mesmerizing, 4 demands open eyes and open minds, but neither is it as difficult as all its weighty silences, oblique detours and countless images of glistening, sweating animal flesh - Mother Russia's raw and seriously overcooked - might suggest. Read full review

Ty Burr

Immense, mystical, and deranged beyond immediate comprehension, Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4 is an apocalyptic allegory of Mother Russia and its current state of squalid exhaustion. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Although Khrzhanovsky has several tricks up his sleeve, 4's most provocative quality is its ironic surplus of beauty. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Its bawdy comedy, bravura sound design and uncanny atmosphere will turn on auds with a taste for deeply oddball fare and baffle others. Read full review

Noel Murray

In spite of a handful of striking images--4 never resolves into anything special. Read full review

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ArloB.

Apr 28, 2006

Too long. Needed better translation. He's not yet the art director Tarkovsky was. Or the story teller Jarmusch is. But he's got time. And so do I.

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