The Magic Gloves
Cinema Tropical | Release Date: November 8, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Only Rejtman's sharp eye for absurd detail and the bleakly subtle joke separates comedy from tragedy in this story of listless Bonaerenses chasing their own tails through successive drab rings of urban hell. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
He may earn his living as a cab driver, but the blank hero of Martín Rejtman's sardonic Argentinean comedy is perfectly content to hitch his way through life. Read full review
60
Film ThreatFelix Vasquez, Jr.
While the film suffers from a forced absurdity meant to invoke comedy and laughs along with a sluggish pacing, Rejtman captures the grim monotony of life well. Read full review
60
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Sporadically charming and quite amusing, but torpidly paced. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Martin Rejtman's 1999 "Silvia Prieto" fashioned a deadpan farce from the aimless circulation of objects and identities around its unsmiling title character. The Magic Gloves, the Argentine writer-director's 2003 follow-up, is a similarly absurdist smart-com featuring another depressed protag navigating a yuppie Buenos Aires milieu. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
A limp urban comedy not nearly as whimsical as its title. Read full review
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