'R Xmas

Name: 'R Xmas
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: November 8, 2002
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 55

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Pathfinder Pictures | Release Date: November 8, 2002 | R

Summary: In this thriller, an idyllic Christmas is shattered by a bitter drug-related feud in upper-Manhattan.

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Scott Tobias

A lean, well-contained slice-of-life at 83 minutes, 'R Xmas finds the director making a confident return to the hard-nosed realism on which he's staked his maverick reputation. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Few directors can put loneliness on screen as persuasively or capture the eerie quiet of people waiting for something, anything to happen. It's in moments such as these, when all sense of time disappears and all that remains are bodies in motion and Ken Kelsch's limpid cinematography, that you remember just how good Ferrara can be. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Introduces a new Ferrara -- sophisticated and restrained. It's a look that becomes him. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Cinematographer Ken Kelsch, Ferrara's frequent collaborator, picks up the theme of overlapping lives by layering images within scenes -- the ongoing interplay of reflections and shadows is breathtaking -- and through slow, shimmering dissolves. Read full review

J. Hoberman

Like any self-respecting Ferrara film, 'R Xmas has its intimations of hellfire, yet it's a weirdly benign Christmas fable -- something like "Miracle on 134th Street." Read full review

David Sterritt

The title refers to the commercialization of just about everything in modern society, and Ferrara brings touches of his ornery filmmaking imagination to bear on the pessimistic parable. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue, all credibility flies out the window. Read full review

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Ice-T

Nov 12, 2005

My movies rock!

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GilbertMulroneycakesAndFriends

Dec 6, 2002

What the hell is that title all about? I assume I'd get it if I was blacklatinItalian American. But I'm not, so I don't. Anyway, the film. Not bad. But not great. A teensy bit gratuitous and unecessary. Watchable enough.

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