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Look (2007)

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Reviews Counted:35

Fresh:21

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.8/10

Consensus: Though Adam Rifkin’s voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every... The Post 9/11 world has forever changed the notion of privacy. There are now approximately 30 million surveillance cameras in the United States generating more than 4 billion hours of footage every week. And the numbers are growing. The average American is now captured over 200 times a day, in department stores, gas stations, changing rooms, even public bathrooms. No one is spared from the relentless, unblinking eye of the cameras that are hidden in every nook and cranny of day-to-day life.

Shot entirely from the point of view of the security cameras. Adam Rifkin’s Look follows several interweaving, story lines over the course of a random week in a random city. Lookis a film about the things that people do when they don’t know they’re being watched.

Based on the premise that everyone has secrets, Look takes us on a voyeuristic journey into the most personal parts of ordinary people’s lives. Everyone is guilty of selective deception. We all hide aspects our lives from those around us. It might be as benign as picking your nose in an empty elevator or perhaps something much darker. Look poses the question: Are we always alone when we think we are?

A high school English teacher tries his best to be a decent husband, a department store floor manager uses the warehouse for more than just storage, a Mini-Mart clerk has big dreams, a lawyer struggles with a sexual dilemma and sociopathic brothers ruin the day of random strangers they come in contact with. Look tells five private stories which unfold before the prying eye of the covert camera to chilling effect.

Look around you and wonder…who is watching? --© Captured Films
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Starring: Rhys Coiro, Hayes MacArthur, Giuseppe Andrews, Spencer Redford

Starring: Rhys Coiro, Hayes MacArthur, Giuseppe Andrews, Spencer Redford, Heather Hogan, Jennifer Fontaine, Jamie McShane

Director: Adam Rifkin

Director: Adam Rifkin
Screenwriter: Adam Rifkin
Producer: Brad Wyman, Barry Schuler
Composer: BT
Studio: Captured Films

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Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
12/01/07
Screen International

This is a great example of what you can do with not a lot of money as long as you’re willing to think outside the box.

Full Review Source: Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews | comment Comment
12/17/07
Moriarty
Moriarty
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews

If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
12/20/07
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

Some of this isn’t easy to watch, but it’s all worth a Look.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/14/07
Chad Greene
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
03/27/08
Maureen M. Hart
Maureen M. Hart
Chicago Tribune

If Crash had been this interesting it might have deserved that Oscar; this movie lacks polish but that is precisely what makes it work. It's a very interesting experiment, one which I found entertaining, nervewracking, and rewarding.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
02/16/08
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
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05/21/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A seamless mixture of riotous humor and socio-political commentary.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
11/06/07
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Rifkin skillfully interweaves plotlines in a way that makes this currently much overused device seem perkily adroit rather than tiresome.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
12/18/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

heavy on concept, not content

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
12/14/07
Norm Schrager
Norm Schrager
Filmcritic.com

The effectiveness of it in capturing our attention attests to very fine writing and editing which serve the mockumentary framework with immediate gripping power.

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01/11/08
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com

Once or twice a year, if we are lucky, a movie comes out of seemingly nowhere and grabs ahold of us, with thoughts and ideas that stick in our heads long after the credits have rolled out and the lights in the auditorium has illuminated again.

Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
12/10/07
Edward Havens
Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com

It seems somehow entirely appropriate that the city of Las Vegas would be the place where writer-director Rifkin’s film would earn its first Grand Jury Award.

Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | comment Comment
11/30/07
Richard Horgan
Richard Horgan
FilmStew.com

A skillful examination of the things people do when they think no one's looking.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/07/07
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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10/01/08
Jenny Peters
Jenny Peters
Hollywood.com

By the end, you're ready to call for the abolition of video surveillance, if only so that you can stop watching all these irritating characters.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
03/20/08
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

This could have amounted to nothing more than a clever trick, but it's much more than that.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
12/21/07
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Look just wallows in the shameful acts. Nobody need watch.

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12/14/07
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/14/07
Michael Ordoña
Michael Ordoña
Los Angeles Times
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It brings up lots of questions to ponder and mostly succeeds as a fascinating, if frightening statement on the way we are.

Full Review Source: Maxim | comment Comment
12/14/07
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Maxim
 
 
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