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10/30/09
Tetro (2009)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:47
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.
Synopsis: Almost four decades after he wrote THE CONVERSATION, Francis Ford Coppola returns to original screenwriting with this personal drama about an Argentine-Italian family. TETRO stars Vincent Gallo and... [More]
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Tetro
Mostly dull stuff but has its moments when it sparkles, as it muses over the Oedipal Complex like a madman throwing his clothes out the window.
09/30/09
Tetro is a delirious surprise -- an experimental film from Francis Ford Coppola that has the sizzle and vim of his great narrative work.
09/18/09
What threatens to be a mere exercise in style proves to be as involving as it is inventive.
09/17/09
Francis Ford Coppola has never been the most subtle or unpretentious of filmmakers. But if anything, he's gotten even more self-indulgent and stuffy ever since he set his sights and cameras on Europe and South America.
09/10/09
Tetro moves and startles
08/25/09
The performances, particularly from relative newcomer Alden Ehrenreich, will keep you engaged.
08/14/09
While Coppola seems revitalized by quoting from movies he studied at UCLA film school, what ultimately makes Tetro so compelling is the filmmaker's return to the motifs that made his 1970s films powerful.
08/14/09
What makes it eminently watchable is the craft. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. films in luscious widescreen monochrome that looks almost wet. Osvaldo Golijov's score is another pleasure.
08/14/09
'Tetro' is absorbing, daring and proof that, even now, Coppola's famous reach does not exceed his creative grasp.
08/08/09
The acting is terrific.
08/07/09
Old-fashioned melodramatic claptrap, served up in ridiculously overblown style...another deeply embarrassing misfire from a man once considered a major American filmmaker.
08/06/09
It is interesting. Better, it is quite possibly great.
07/31/09
Coppola has made something personal and intimate that, while not brilliant, sticks to the grand, operatic themes that made him famous.
07/30/09
A rare cinematic experience on every level. There's been nothing like it on theater screens for a very long time, and it serves as a reminder of that fact.
07/29/09
A dazzling mess... it throbs with an excess of emotion and idealistic, cuckoo daring.
07/25/09
Tetro is a maddening mix of the glorious and the inept.
07/24/09
It would be a better coffee-table book than film.
07/17/09
Tetro percolates with energy and bawdy knockabout humor.
07/16/09
The Coppola who was master of the 1970s ... is back, and that should make every cinephile weep with joy
07/11/09
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