Dust
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: August 22, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
3
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60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story of American brothers. Read full review
60
VarietyDavid Stratton
It's too arty to cut it as a violent action pic and too gore-spattered to appeal to the arthouse crowd. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Its most impressive aspect is its visual style, patterned to some degree on Sergio Leone westerns. A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent, though. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking brought down by weighted dialogue and, playing Americans, the British actors Adrian Lester and Joseph Fiennes and the Australian David Wenham. Read full review
50
Village VoiceLeslie Camhi
Manchevski has a rare visual intelligence, whether filming the face of a dying woman or Times Square's reflection in a windshield. But in reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, he sacrifices character and motivation. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Three movies in one: a spaghetti Western, an urban drama and a historical epic. All of them suffer from self-indulgent direction, a convoluted script and awkward acting. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Whatever ghost-story intrigue the film musters gives way to a tedious cycle of fighting, screwing, shouting and storytelling stuck together by two hours worth of hard-boiled dialogue gone gummy. Read full review
25
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Lurches so wildly and meaninglessly between genres and time frames that all it creates is motion sickness. Read full review
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