Tony Manero
Lorber Films | Release Date: July 3, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
More than an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie, Tony Manero is an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
After winning raves at last year's New York Film Festival, Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, from Chile, is receiving a run here. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Larrain's (literally) dark, edgy movie is a precise artistic commentary on Augusto Pinochet's miserable regime. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterPeter Brunette
50
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Balancing black humor against allegorical indictment of the Pinochet regime's oppression on narrow stack heels, striking, very offbeat period pic Tony Manero follows a psychotic petty criminal into the depths of his crazed obsession with John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever." Read full review
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain's alarming Tony Manero--named not for its protagonist, but rather his ego-ideal, John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever"--is another study of a cinema-struck, solitary daydreamer, albeit a particularly stunted member of the genus. Read full review
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