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Ironweed
1988
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Ironweed
Positive Reviews
8
Negative reviews
4
Average Rating
3.3
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3.8
Actors are said to like to play drunks, because it gives them an excuse for overacting. But there is not much visible acting in this movie; the actors ..
Rogerebert
4.5
Unrelentingly bleak, Ironweed is a film without an audience and no reason for being except its own self importance.
Variety
2.5
But they dont make as many potholes in this Tokyo (actually, Albany, circa 1938).
1.5
Comes about as close to being an unmitigated waste of talent as any movie in recent memory.
3.0
Good performances, but If youre looking for an uplifting tale of hope against despair, look elsewhere.
4.5
Hector Babenco puts the accent on the storys spiritual dimensions in this screen translation of William Kennedys Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Spirituality And Practice
4.0
If you enjoyed Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy as on the skids New Yorkers in Can You Ever Forgive Me, heres an even starrier example of Hollywoo ..
The Times
4.5
The two leads put in startling performances to cut through cynicism, but theres no levity or dramatic peak to elevate you from the misery.
Film 4
2.0
Nicholsons performance doesnt whimper for our approval, and it carries some of the intensely ironic Irish humor that runs in a vein through the book.
La Times
1.5
Midway through the movie Nicholson observes, When you cant stand it anymore, you die.
Articles Chicago Tribune
1.5
Perhaps the heart of the matter is the false lure of the original: some books, such as Ironweed despite strung visual incidents and an almost palpable ..
OutWeek
4.4
...slow and crushing, a heavy film that has a simple plot, a despairing tone and none of the ostentatious acting often evinced in Nicholsons later car ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
But Ironweed makes the sadness seem isolated and dangerous and unreal; it only exists where the bums live, it doesnt reach into the lives of good fami ..
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