Stylistically sophisticated and emotionally visceral
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08/26/09
Mary (2008)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:10
Rotten:6
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 83 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Anthology Film Archives is thrilled to present the over-due New York Theatrical Premiere Run of Abel Ferrara’s Mary. Auteur Tony (Modine) is directing and starring in a new film about Jesus. After... [More]
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Graham
Director: Abel Ferrara
Reviews for Mary
1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Many Ferrara faithful fetching for something uncanny will line up and get what they bargained for.
10/21/08
Cult director Abel Ferrara bites off more than he can chew with this murky, unfocused exploration of religion and faith in the age of media madness.
10/20/08
Mary is a mess. An inter esting one, yet still a mess.
10/17/08
Mary is a convoluted, hysterical mess of a movie with grandiose spiritual airs and not a drop of humor.
10/17/08
Top CriticA triune plot that Ferrara digs into with sleeves fully rolled up.
10/16/08
It feels like the kind of snoozy artistic modulation that critics often confuse for maturation.
10/15/08
Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness.
10/15/08
Very little of this mess works in any conventional sense, but as the performances begin to redline, the movie examines the relationship between performance and contrition.
06/08/08
Ferrara presents his ideas in what's meant to be a meditation on the nature of faith but ends up an incoherent, pretentious mess.
06/15/06
...both Forest Whitaker and Juliette Binoche (as with the rest of the cast) give such amazing performances that they should be added to the list of the best work of their careers.
06/14/06
Somehow turns confusion into a concise study on what it means to believe in god in this day and age.
06/08/06
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09/24/05
A serious-minded film about the confusion and anxiety that mark a true inquisition into one's faith.
09/20/05
A sincere grapple with faith and redemption in cynical times.
09/13/05
Top CriticMurky and forgettable.
09/13/05
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Latest News for Mary
October 03, 2008:
Further Reading: Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker in Abel Ferrara's Mary
As the NFT in London prepares a Juliette Binoche season, Kim looks at Abel Ferrara's Mary which also stars Marion Cotillard and Forest Whittaker. More...
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