Free Radicals
Kino International | Release Date: July 23, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Brims with energy, carefully drawn characters and fine acting. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Deftly intercutting between several tenuously-connected lives, Barbara Albert's astringent drama is transformed by bright flashes of compassion. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The parallel stories don't always dovetail with each other smoothly, but the acting is strong and the atmosphere is powerful. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
An intelligent, viscerally intellectual exercise in ensemble acting and associative montage, enlivened with some terrific visual and dramatic ideas. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Austrian auteur Barbara Albert uses complex mathematics, chaos theory and the music of Dutch pop sensation A-Ha to explore the connections that link a group of disparate characters. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
An often compelling drama, marbled with dry humor and flecked with the supernatural, that provides food for thought but doesn't quite reach the brass ring. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Despite the melodramatic plot twists, there's little emotional resonance to the proceedings, and the film's attempts to link them in metaphysical fashion prove overly ambitious and pretentious. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Although Free Radicals overflows with messy feelings, it maintains such a measured distance from the gathered cries and whispers that it is difficult to empathize with the characters' fears and sorrows. Most of the women are victims, most of the men selfish pigs, and their stories are jarringly punctuated by brutish, joyless bouts of sex. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
At first I thought this was a Michael Haneke knockoff, but it's more depressing and less edifying than most of those narrative experiments, which is why I eventually tuned it out. Read full review
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