| Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: May 19, 1995 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Amateur is a subversive action movie that uses lurid material for its own puckish purposes. [02 Jun 1995]
Amateur offers the inimitable Hartley style with a harder edge than his earlier films, and while the thriller elements of Amateur prove entertaining on a bigger scale, this entertainment may not endure for viewers not completely committed to Amateur's characters and Hartley's slow-motion storytelling.
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Hartley gives us quirkiness in place of connection and usually forgets to put the thrill in the thriller, which is precisely what's endearing about this Amateur. [12 May 1995]
Amateur, the fourth film of American independent filmmaker Hal Hartley, is by far his best - though, in the wake of "The Unbelievable Truth," "Trust" and "Simple Men," that is, admittedly, not saying much. [05 May 1995]
Hartley turns what might have been a lurid pulp thriller into a freeze-dried art thing. He squeezes all the juice out of pulp. [19 May 1995]
Amateur is curiously monotone: a pulp fiction with all the pulp strained out. [13 Apr 1995]
Except for a few coups de style, Amateur is a screenful of cool nothingness. [05 May 1995]
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