Anamorph (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Thin on plot but heavy on academic references, Anamorph proves more derivative than terrifying.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Willem Dafoe (THE ENGLISH PATIENT) plays an NYPD detective who grapples with a string of unusual serial murders, perpetrated by a killer who fashions himself an artist. As the detective... [More]
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall
Director: H.S. Miller
Reviews for Anamorph
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No more interesting than any standard episode of "CSI" or any of the other myriad of cop-centric whodunits polluting our airwaves. Full Review |
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1/5 |
O roteiro carregado de clichés desperdiça o que até poderia ser uma premissa interessante, ao passo que os esforços estilísticos de Miller soam patéticos, como uma imitação barata dos trabalhos de David Fincher.
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2/4 |
Anamorph dances around ponderous issues and grotesque scenery but fails to really engage, startle or disturb. Full Review |
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 8/10 |
A visual treat for Dafoe fans that goes well beyond the conventional horror genre into questions of reality and fantasy and how, or if, we tell the difference. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins. Full Review |
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Sure, it's better than 88 Minutes [what isn't?] but it's still pretty pointless, with unclear exposition and murky plot developments. Full Review |
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Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination. Full Review |
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A movie about a premise that metamorphoses into twaddle. Full Review |
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On a scale of one to Se7en, Miller's doomed rip barely rates. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
This serial killer movie is nothing but a copycat. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The unfortunate fact is that it's more than a little dull when it isn't preposterous. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A serial-killer flick told like an art lecture, Anamorph manages to be gruesome yet dull. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The long shadow of David Fincher's Seven falls on Anamorph, a moody, ultimately unexciting thriller. Full Review |
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2/5 |
An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks. Full Review |
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Wears its influences...a little too heavily on its sleeve. But it does effectively convey a lingering sense of dread that can't be easily dismissed. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The atmosphere created by director H.S. Miller is gothic, tortured, stylized yet tinged with a classicist's sense of composition, symmetry and, yes, perspective. Full Review |
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The serial killer in Anamorph shows promise, even if some of his best moves are derivative. The same is true of the film’s director.
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3/6 |
Compelling as it often is, Anamorph feels positively cloddish next to David Fincher’s Seven or Zodiac, with which it shares a fondness for shadowy rooms and dimly lit obsessions. Full Review |
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Beyond its cool, reflective surfaces and infinite plays with perspective lies nothing -- character, relationships, motives all seemingly irrelevant. Full Review |
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A pale imitation of David Fincher's Seven. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Anamorph
January 17, 2009:
EMarketingMag.com: Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination. 
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December 18, 2008:
Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination.
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