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Critic Reviews
Nov 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
A transformative work that so vividly brings the drama to life it might as well be brand-new to its audience. ... [Ben Stiller's] gorgeous and haunting work, combined with a career-best performance from Arquette, helps Dannemora transcend into one of the best TV experiences of the year.
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Nov 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Created by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin and directed with unflinching perspective by Ben Stiller (yes, the very one), Escape at Dannemora is a master work of true-crime dramatization, remarkable in that it feels true in a way that even transcends the record of what happened.
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Nov 14, 2018ColliderNov 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Though there are moments throughout Dannemora where Stiller shows off his talent for creating thrilling, tense sequences regarding the machinations leading up to the escape, the series is perhaps even more dynamic in its quiet character moments. It’s an acting showcase for the leads.
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TV Guide MagazineNov 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Riveting and superbly acted seven-part true-crime docudrama. [12-25 Nov 2018, p.11]
Nov 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The idea of escape doesn’t enter the story until the end of the second episode. Nevertheless, the component parts of Dannemora are solid, and often more than that. And all told, the series represents some of the best work that Arquette, Dano, Del Toro, Morse, and director Ben Stiller (playing it absolutely straight behind the camera, for the first time) have ever done.
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Nov 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Like the prisoners in their new freedom, these final episodes tend to wander. Still there’s a lot to be said for the series as a whole. In particular, the parts set in the institution, the focus on daily existence in the place, the clamor, the tensions, the character of the guards, the favors available for a little bribery, all of it a sterling evocation of prison life.
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Nov 16, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Like many limited series these days, Dannemora probably could stand to be shorter; it stalls out and loses momentum in the middle episodes before ramping back up for the final installments. But there’s a lot of rich psychological ground to cover here, and Stiller and his actors patiently sift through every bit of it.
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Nov 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s to the credit of everyone involved (especially director of photography Jessica Lee Gagné and her love of humble Kelly Reichardt grays) that they stick to the story, tell it with not an ounce of bombast and leave this post-Altman purgatory the way they found it. Some stones unturned, but otherwise a hollow, puttering husk of existence is left thoroughly gleaned.
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RogerEbert.comNov 14, 2018
Nov 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
When [Patricia Arquette] is on-screen, the show becomes about a woman denied the opportunity to live fully and freely, someone who’s never had the pleasure of being understood and so cannot understand herself. The story falls short of urgent relevance, and it didn’t need to be told over seven hours. But Arquette will keep you rapt.
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Nov 19, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin structure the eight-part series well enough, scripting crisp dialogue and tense scenes that allow Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano to rip into every frame with their performances. ... But the ponderous construction involved in getting there places a drag on its energy, to the point that the production asks not for the audience’s patience as much as perseverance.
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Nov 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It doesn’t have the energy or excitement of a B picture, though it does, despite its general somberness, manage to feel exploitative. ... In a seven-hour session, the series takes on an epic quality, keeping you interested on a narrative level at least; week to week, the individual episodes won’t necessarily deliver enough to make you want to come back. Dannemora, like the escape it portrays, is a meticulously planned and executed operation that doesn’t go anywhere.
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Nov 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, all the top-notch acting can't quite overcome the pacing problems of Escape at Dannemora. It takes five episodes to get out of the prison and even Stiller's most impressive and creative efforts at illuminating all the discovery, digging and sweat it took to get there can't make it more exciting.
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