Adoration (2009)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:50
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: A complex and thought-provoking work, Atom Egoyan's Adoration works well as both mystery and engaging drama.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has spent most of his career exploring themes of identity and perception, and he returns to this territory again in ADORATION. Simon (Devon Bostick) is a bright... [More]
Starring: Devon Bostick, Arsinee Khanjian, Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard
Director: Atom Egoyan
Reviews for Adoration
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 4/5 |
With his usual themes of memory and technology, Egoyan tells a provocative and deeply emotional story that centres on current issues. It's a little heavy handed, but still thoroughly involving. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Typically dense and complex drama from Atom Egoyan that's as satisfying as completing a jigsaw puzzle. Full Review |
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The stories here are thin, unnecessarily complicated and glibly cryptic; some sections are difficult to follow, even annoying in their self-consciousness. Full Review |
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5/10 |
A stylish film with a solid cast and equally solid acting. But it feels like an exercise film, the kind of filmic monologue one might produce for an assignment not unlike the story that the young hero concocts. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Steeped in relentless (and often clumsy) symbolism, and hamstrung by a frustratingly disjointed narrative, it's puzzling for all the wrong reasons. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Cinephiles who thought Atom Egoyan went off the rails with the tawdry cheese of "Where The Truth Lies" will be happy to see "Adoration," which shows the Canadian filmmaker once again in fine, austere form. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The movie's fractured structure and contrived subplots obscure a potentially affecting story and do nothing to advance the debate on any of its incendiary issues. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
It will likely test the limits of some viewers, though those with patience may find a few things to like. There's definitely no shortage of ideas, that's for sure. Full Review |
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87/100 |
...a complicated and not altogether successful rumination on identity, technology, terrorism and the nature of truth. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
As thoughtful, calculated, somber and cold as a heavily footnoted term paper... Full Review |
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3/4 |
Adoration is rich with political themes about ethnicity, a complex story about family history, a thoughtful young protagonist and a fascinating look at the way we communicate through the latest social-networking tools. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A gimmicky, sad and beautifully acted mystery that keeps its secrets even when it loses its grasp of the logical. Full Review |
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2/4 |
After a promising start, this ambitious but ultimately clunky and unwieldy movie dissolves into a pile of ideas in dire need of dramatization. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Adoration may be driven by Egoyan's usual weighty concerns, but too often it operates on cruise control. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A pretentious, naval-gazing pity party thrown for condescending, affected blowhards. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Egoyan’s ham-fisted commentaries on religion, terrorism and xenophobia are so needy they make Crash perpetrator Paul Haggis look subtle. Full Review |
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B |
Egoyan is nothing if not low key; and as dramatic as passages are here, he keeps the tone under control and the story believable. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Bostick turns in a quietly mesmerizing performance, capturing Simon's sense of loss without slipping into pathos. Full Review |
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B- |
No one else would have made a film about these people, exploring these ideas and taking these kinds of mysterious risks... but it all amounts ambiguously to being either the best of Egoyan's weaker films or the shakiest of his good ones. Full Review |
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B |
Another well-wrought and intriguing drama by Egoyan. Full Review |
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