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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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Screen International

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 21 2009 03:15 AM

Combustible Celluloid

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Sean Axmaker

Rifkin has a cynical view of human behavior and he plays it for cheap titillation and bleak humor, which is mean-spirited at best and glib at worst.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 03 2009 06:06 PM

Seanax.com

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3/5

Jenny Peters

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 01 2008 03:15 AM

Hollywood.com

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2.5/4

Maureen M. Hart

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 27 2008 12:58 PM

Chicago Tribune

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2/5

Josh Bell

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 20 2008 03:28 PM

Las Vegas Weekly

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2.5/5

Ken Hanke

Not much is what you get with this bargain-basement attempt at Altman. It has 'direct to video' written all over it

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 18 2008 11:58 PM

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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2.5/5

Karina Montgomery

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 16 2008 10:35 AM

Cinerina

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4/5

Jules Brenner

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2008 05:39 PM

Filmcritic.com

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Andy Klein

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 21 2007 02:51 AM

Los Angeles CityBeat

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Noel Murray

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: | comment Comment | Dec., 20 2007 05:39 PM

AV Club

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David Noh

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 18 2007 07:25 AM

Film Journal International

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Moriarty

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: | comment Comment | Dec., 17 2007 11:23 AM

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2.5/4

Maitland McDonagh

Rifkin's film is surprisingly compelling, if not up to dealing with the larger political issues it raises.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:54 PM

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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1.5/4

V.A. Musetto

There are some funny moments, plus occasional nudity and sex, but the joke quickly wears off. What might have worked as a half-hour TV show doesn't suit itself to a feature-length film.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:53 PM

New York Post

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3/4

Jack Mathews

Orwell would have loved it.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:52 PM

New York Daily News

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2/5

Michael Ordoña

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: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:52 PM

Los Angeles Times

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1.5/4

Glenn Whipp

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:51 PM

Los Angeles Daily News

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Chad Greene

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 04:50 PM

Boxoffice Magazine

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2.5/5

Matt Zoller Seitz

Look, an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance.

comment Comment | Dec., 14 2007 01:51 PM

New York Times

 
 
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