Masked and Anonymous
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: July 24, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
11
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
A messy, ambitious comedy. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
"Masked" is erratic and volatile, too, from scene to scene, moment to moment. The script is chaotic, but the top-flight actors play their hearts out. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
For all its pretensions and avant-garde narrative dislocations, the star-studded cast...keeps this buzzing. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
This one's painful. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
The film strains for some kind of meaning, but asks you to do the work it can't and won't perform on its own. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Bob Dylan might have been wrong when he sang that "there’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all." His new movie, although a complete narrative mess, is a thoroughly Dylanesque escapade. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Though Dylan shuffles through the dramatic sequences like a dessicated mummy, the music sequences are strikingly vibrant -- he's never looked worse or sounded better. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Only Giovanni Ribisi, with a back-of-the-bus speech about the betrayals of insurgent and counter-insurgent politics, finds a genuine moment. All the same, for some unfathomable reason, Dylan's autumnal self-salute is not particularly difficult to watch. Read full review
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