At Any Price
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: April 26, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
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14
Negative:
1
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60
EmpireAnna SmithJan 11, 2016
Heather Graham and Maika Monroe add heat to this handsome, slow-burning thriller that lacks the urgency of Bahrani’s previous effort, "99 Homes." Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfApr 23, 2013
The fine cast takes the movie as far as it will comfortably go, until Bahrani gets a case of Great American Play–itis. Read full review
55
Film.comWilliam GossApr 23, 2013
Subtlety is hardly at home here, with Quaid’s especially earnest performance a well-suited mask for Henry’s desperation that nonetheless amplifies the phoniness of the entire enterprise. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 23, 2013
Bahrani is brilliant at small gestures and the way they can speak volumes, but in At Any Price he’s aiming for grand tragedy, and he doesn’t yet have the knack. The pacing of the final act is uncertain; the epic sweep doesn’t arrive. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 17, 2013
In getting so many of the Midwestern details wrong, worldly director Bahrani (“Chop Shop”) teaches an inadvertent lesson to aspiring filmmakers who want to follow his footsteps to the festival circuit: Grow where you’re planted. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMay 10, 2013
What remains “indie” about At Any Price is that this is an unabashed social-message film – one that plays out like a cross between the agribusiness exposé "Food, Inc." and Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman." Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 9, 2013
Ultimately, At Any Price isn’t terrible, but you can tell that’s hardly the endorsement the filmmakers were seeking. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 2, 2013
At Any Price finally hinges on tragedies, reversals and moral ambiguities of Shakespearean proportions, but they’re delivered ploddingly rather than as the intricate parts of an inevitable whole. At Any Price ultimately suffers from the very phenomenon it laments: Like Henry Whipple’s farm, it feels more mechanistic than organic. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerApr 6, 2013
Alternates between business-world morality play, family drama, and portrait of a local community without ever comfortably integrating these disparate elements into his messy stew. Read full review
42
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMay 23, 2013
The audacious ending, though unjustified by what had come before, was clearly something mainstream Hollywood would not have tolerated. Yet the 90 minutes in between, a mass of symbols and improbabilities so great they provoke outright laughter, made me wonder whether aliens stole Bahrani’s brain. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayApr 24, 2013
This time out, Bahrani’s push to make a point wins out over the strong sense of character he’s cultivated in his earlier films. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMay 31, 2013
And therein lies one of the film's most glaring problems. Perhaps that vilification of Big Agro will resonate with farm folk, but it's not the sort of thing that will have many city slickers -- even those who sympathize with the little guys on this issue -- exactly sitting on the edge of their theater seat. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 25, 2013
Most notably, Bahrani offers an emotional depiction of American farming that will leave viewers troubled, as it should. But he loses his footing when it comes to the story itself. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 3, 2013
Some of the acting isn't bad, but the story is messy and unsatisfying with a plot-hole you could drive a dozen combine harvesters through, the ending is an outrageous fudge and the lead performance from Dennis Quaid is strange to say the least. Read full review
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