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Chlorine
2014
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Chlorine
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2
Negative reviews
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2.0
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1.5
Some of Chlorines scenes go for a pat lifestyle satire that can be diverting enough but feels secondhand. Elsewhere it makes wobbly overtures toward u ..
Variety
1.5
Mired in the blahs, the blues and the midlife crazies, this poor mans American Beauty slowly sucks your will to live.
The New York Times
1.5
A flat, undercooked suburban comedy. Or is it a drama Or maybe a kind of satire Regardless, its short on style, substance or any clear raison dtre.
1.5
Jay Alaimos tiresome dramatic comedy often seems as if it were assembled using the cut up technique favored by Burroughs and his beat contemporaries, ..
Village Voice
1.5
Derivative and unresponsive, Chlorine tanks every idea it submits, incapable of achieving the pathos it sets out for itself, lost to filmmaking limita ..
Blu Ray
4.5
An apt alternate title for this lightweight comedy/drama might be A Woodchuck in the Suburbs for, like the slightly more serious The Wolf of Wall Stre ..
Film Journal International ..
2.5
Unfortunately, better movies have already been made about the subject, from the underrated film The Joneses to the current Wolf of Wall Street.
Observer
3.2
The admirable wit thats on display when it comes to subtle motifs and the poignant conclusion that resonates if you let it, regardless of how predicta ..
Blogs Indie Wire
1.3
Chlorine is lacking in just about everything: wit, dramatic momentum, cohesion, etc. A wildly underdeveloped film.
Aisle Seat
2.0
Every time Jay Liftons self consciously quirky music kicks in, it undermines everything else. It sounds more like Lifton is making fun of indie comedi ..
Oregon Live
2.0
The film is about how adults can sometimes act like children, and the unforeseen consequences that result. We know, because Sedgwick says it out loud ..
The Dissolve
2.0
Chlorine feels medicated, a film that goes through the motions of suburban malaise, but only proves that to convey this as a state of mind or way of b ..
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