The impeccable cast help make this sombre work engaging
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04/18/09
Emotional Arithmetic (2007)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:2
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.2/10
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon
Director: Paolo Barzman
Reviews for Emotional Arithmetic
1 - 8 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA piece of advice for Canadian filmmakers -- don't make movies out of dreary CanLit novels. They're easy enough to spot.
04/18/08
An interesting story, but the storytelling doesn't add up.
04/18/08
Generally solid performances.
09/25/07
Top CriticA "Never Forget" PSA done up as a Bergmanesque psychodrama...
09/22/07
Earnest and fact-filled ... and completely inert; it's like looking at a civics class diorama.
09/22/07
There's a dense compression here that's meant to be elliptical and allusive but has just the opposite effect. Rather than resonate, the compression suffocates the life out of the picture and every actor in it.
09/22/07
The sort of film one dreads encountering at a film festival...
09/19/07
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