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12/06/05
Burial Society (2004)
53 %
Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 8 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Synopsis: Sheldon Kasner, a man of quiet desperation who works as a loan manager at the Hebrew National Bank is overworked and under-appreciated. He struggles to surpass the limitations of his mundane life. Sheldon, the most unlikely of criminals, is drawn into the underworld of money laundering in a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
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1 - 15 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The twisty storyline does have its moments, but eventually the actors are reduced to wearing the requirements of the plot like pairs of cement shoes.
07/30/04
Top Critic
Features fine performances by a cast of veteran actors but is marred by its unconvincing back story.
07/29/04
Top Critic
Scrambling to find a place in the Coen brothers' shadow, Racz tries too hard to manufacture a sense of zany unpredictability, but each new twist only reveals Sheldon as the soulless opportunist that he is.
05/28/04
The feature debut of writer-director Nicholas Racz is twisty and clever, if not a reinvention of the genre.
05/28/04
The film plays like an old episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, with a resolution that's truly unpredictable.
05/22/04
The appeal of The Burial Society lays in its unusual and obscure take on an otherwise mundane tale of greed, treachery and double-cross.
07/22/03
Spiritual on the one hand and street tough on the other - a cross between The Jewish Sopranos and Six Feet Under And Kosher.
07/13/03
With a plot that is at once needlessly complicated and maddeningly careless, the movie veers unsteadily between farce and crime drama and never really engages the viewer.
07/08/03
The Burial Society is definitely big on plot, but can the thing dance? Short answer: It's no Astaire.
06/06/03
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