Reconstruction
Palm Pictures | Release Date: September 10, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Reconstruction has a poetic sensibility, as well as an old-fashioned Continental appetite for romance, that makes it distinctive. Read full review
80
Dallas ObserverJean Oppenheimer
This intriguing jigsaw puzzle is visually arresting, narratively inventive, and psychologically enigmatic. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It is a fascinating dance between style and substance. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film. Read full review
75
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Uber-hip technique triumphs over substance in Reconstruction. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
The director has a natural's gift for storytelling and eye for casting. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Mr. Boe keeps a safe distance from his characters' inner lives, he does succeed in conjuring an atmosphere of elegant melancholy and metaphysical anxiety. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Everything blends in a haze of longing, so that watching it feels like being in love. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Reconstruction means to be confusing, and is. It also means to intrigue us, and does.
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Features a supernatural twist that is merely okay, but the film's mood of fractured anxiety and longing made me eager to see what the director, Christoffer Boe, does next. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
This languorous art movie is somewhat like "Memento," with its narrative fragments and memory mixups. It never explains itself, which means that the audience, like the protagonists, must take a leap of faith. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Though ultimately the film is all smoke and mirrors, the sensibility it reflects is rich and exciting. Read full review
60
EmpirePatrick Peters
Both women are impeccably played by Maria Bonnevie. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDuane Byrge
Despite the high piffle of the psychology and the arched abstraction of the story line, Reconstruction is well crafted. Under director Christoffer Boe's cagey hand, the pacing is sleek and the cinematography evocative. Claro's compositions are vigorously stylish. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
That Reconstruction is even remotely involving is due to the quality of its acting. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie is so chilly and fundamentally empty at its core that we're more or less on the outside looking in. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderMark Peranson
Directed with confidence, but it's extremely pretentious--the boy-meets-girl equivalent of Lars von Trier's “The Element of Crime”. Read full review
50
VarietyLisa Nesselson
Valiant attempt to innovate in the well-trod realm of Boy Meets Girl doesn't quite coalesce despite a thoughtful and distinctive visual approach. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Reconstruction doesn't evoke much emotion beyond cool ennui. At that, the film excels. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Eventually it all starts to feel like an extended European perfume ad: pretty but eye-rollingly pretentious. Read full review
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