4/5

A strikingly different film from the original: with a slower pace and a much less enigmatic tone.

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07/19/04

N/A

The resulting film reveals an artist who has seriously reflected on his work and carefully considered what to add, what to alter and sometimes what to remove.

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03/30/07

3/4

The film feels like a collision between a John Hughes teen comedy and a David Lynch freakfest.

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07/06/06

N/A

...other additions -- most egregiously at the climax -- are just intrusive and reduce our interpretive choices by replacing them with one choice, purely science-fictional in a George Lucas 'midichlorians' sense, that's a diminishment, not an illumination.

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04/06/06

N/A

Friends and neighbors, this is a Great American Movie.

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04/01/06

B

it cannot be discounted that the substantial supplementary features went a long way towards backing up the film's legitimacy to its ever-increasing population of followers.

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06/10/05

3.5/4

Like Being John Malkovich and 2001: A Space Odyssey and too few others, this is one of those mind-melting cinematic achievements.

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02/24/05

7/10

...in the years since the film was made, the country and the world have become even more divided.... Maybe the movie is more meaningful today than ever.

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01/27/05

N/A

Initially an interesting disappointment, Donnie is now a favorite

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01/04/05

A-

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11/14/04

3.5/4

The longer version ... packs more of a kick and has a grander, gloomier vision: It represents four weeks in the mind of a smart, anguished, lonely guy who doesn't think he's fit to live.

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11/12/04

4/4

This is the kind of movie that creates friendships among its aficionados.

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09/20/04

4/5

Richard Kelly's revamped version of his creepy, cool debut is neither a bold revelation nor a bland over-elaboration.

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09/16/04

3/4

The die-hards will dig it, and those who skipped its initial run should greater enjoy their first trip through the cellar door of Donnie's universe.

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09/09/04

B

Even with additional footage of questionable value, Donnie Darko remains a fantastic midnight at the movies.

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09/03/04

3.5/4

A masterpiece of mood...Donnie Darko is made less obscure—for better or worse—in Kelly's expanded director's cut.

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09/02/04

B+

Still an exceptionally challenging film...but it's not quite the equal of the one some of us found so extraordinary in 2001.

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09/02/04

3.5/4

What remains unchanged is the realization of just what a superb actor Jake Gyllenhaal is.

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08/27/04

3.5/4

A generous, compassionate, daring movie.

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08/26/04

B+

It's a dreamlike, intuitive movie that has much to say about life and death and points in between.

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