Ash Wednesday
Focus Features | Release Date: October 11, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The impish Wood is a little light as Sean, who's inextricably bound by same family ties that robbed him of a promising future and made him a fugitive from the only life he's even known, but the supporting cast is top-notch. Read full review
50
VarietyScott Foundas
Burns' films are invariably better directed and scripted than they are performed, and Ash Wednesday is no exception. Pic's biggest drawback is that the helmer has again cast himself in the leading role. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting. Read full review
40
Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
Russell Fine's kinetic camerawork outperforms the plot. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again. Read full review
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