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04/09/04
Ash Wednesday (2002)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:4
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
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,... [More]
Starring: Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt
Director: Edward Burns
Reviews for Ash Wednesday
1 - 17 (sorted by rotten rating; UK critics are listed first)
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10/19/07
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04/20/04
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05/19/04
We don't see much box-office green in this film's future.
10/11/02
Top CriticBurns' 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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01/17/06
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
Top Critic...unlike [Scorsese's Mean Streets], Ash Wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot.
03/30/03
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
Top CriticAn ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting.
10/11/02
There ought to be a directing license, so that Ed Burns can have his revoked.
10/10/02
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10/07/05
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08/14/05
For all its brooding quality, Ash Wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
10/10/02
Top CriticThis may be Burns's strongest film since The Brothers McMullen.
10/10/02
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
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