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06/24/06
Dot the I (2005)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:15
Rotten:44
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: dot the i starts out as a standard love triangle, but last minute revelations turn the movie into a gimmick.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Romance, Music (General), World Music
Synopsis: dot the i, a romantic thriller with a dark comedic twist, stars Gael García Bernal, who shot to fame in AMORES PERROS (Best Actor, Cannes Semaine de la Critique), Natalia Verbeke and James D'Arcy.... [More]
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Charlie Cox
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Reviews for Dot the I
Top CriticLike the fire trucks that can't quite reach the burning building, there are a lot of good ideas racing toward Dot the I, and ... they ... can't ... quite ... get ... there. Besides, the movie is intent on self-immolation.
03/31/05
'Un filme inteligente y perfectamente bien estructurado en el que nada es lo que parece'
01/09/04
So in love with its own inventions and convolutions that it ignores all plausibility and audience acceptance.
06/25/05
While Parkhill's filmmaking remains almost hypnotic throughout, the increasingly nonsensical manipulations doom Dot the I to being a deftly made blunder.
03/23/05
Here's something you don't find everyday! An original film superbly acted!
03/11/05
It plays like the last paragraph of one of those Encyclopedia Brown stories, where the solution is an unknown twin brother or the wrong-sized footprint.
04/15/05
the film becomes entirely meta-fictional and I simply gave up caring
04/16/05
Barnaby's game -- or, rather, director Parkhill's -- is, at best, a draw.
03/02/05
While the plot whirls around with a number of deft twists and deepens into darker layers, the story is emotionally uninvolving.
01/20/04
Top Critic[a] gimmicky love triangle...an okay enough exercise, but has no emotional reverb
03/19/05
Inflicts great pain on the audience by wringing its plot into a bruised and pulpy mass.
04/21/05
Dark, funny, quite a thriller... It's a forgettable title (that doesn't work in English), but you won't forget the wicked fun of the movie.
04/15/05
Dot the I doesn't suffer from a lack of skill. Rather it becomes a lesson in the pitfalls of moviemaking that runs on cleverness and too little else.
04/15/05
The movie not only scatters undotted Is and uncrossed Ts in its wake, but unsquared circles, unfactored primes, unrisen souffles and unconsummated consummations.
04/14/05
Top CriticThe result is funny in its way, and in line with the movie references throughout, but ultimately the viewer is not left with the necessary pathos.
04/27/03
If you find dense, self-conscious mystification decorated with all kinds of fashionable postmodern gimmicks more than a bit annoying, best to look elsewhere.
04/23/05
A curious mélange that works more often than not.
05/20/05
While stylishly done, Parkhill's script isn't nearly as clever as he thinks it is, and the sucker punch near the end lacks, well, punch.
04/28/05
Dot the I is no different than the “emotional snuff film” it pretends to condemn, wiping out human emotion in favor of soulless twists.
06/17/04
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