General Orders No. 9
Variance Films | Release Date: June 24, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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2
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1
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75
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreJun 23, 2011
General Orders No. 9 is bound to test the patience, but there are rewards to be found in its deliberate rhythms - foremost amongst them, the glorious, haunting visuals. Read full review
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Village VoiceKarina LongworthJun 21, 2011
Much of this commentary, equally in awe of progress and suspicious of it, is strikingly sincere. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJun 21, 2011
First-time writer-director Robert Persons' documentary on the Deep South introduces a new filmmaker with a distinctive sensibility. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJun 24, 2011
Yet the urban images he presents are missing the thing that makes any city come alive: human beings. You begin to suspect that Mr. Persons hates humanity. This makes General Orders No. 9, for all its sheen of sophistication, rather simplistic: people bad, nature good. Read full review
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Time OutKeith UhlichJun 21, 2011
There is no depth or resonance to anything we see and hear-everything is as it seems, no more, no less, and the reactionary superficiality dulls the senses. General Orders No. 9 strains for elegiac profundity and ends up as bad, backward-looking poetry. Read full review
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Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierJun 21, 2011
Under the modern mannerisms lies a rather clumsily Romantic -- one might say Wordsworthian -- rant that juxtaposes urbanity against a nebulous, fictitious past. Read full review
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