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10/19/07
Ash Wednesday (2002)
29 %
Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 4 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Synopsis: Ash Wednesday, 1980. Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Exactly three years ago, while tending bar, Sean Sullivan (Elijah Wood) overhears some mobsters who speak of a plan to murder his older brother, Francis (Edward Burns). Sean pulls a gun and shot at them. Soon thereafter, he goes missing, and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt, Pat McNamara
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04/09/04
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05/19/04
...unlike [Scorsese's Mean Streets], Ash Wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot.
03/30/03
Ash Wednesday is not Edward Burns' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film. And it marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today.
02/23/03
Burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off.
10/14/02
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This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.
10/10/02
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For all its brooding quality, Ash Wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
10/10/02
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There ought to be a directing license, so that Ed Burns can have his revoked.
10/10/02
Despite the authenticity of the trappings, the film is overblown in its plotting, hackneyed in its dialogue and anachronistic in its style.
10/09/02
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