Seldom has a black heart been served up so vividly.
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08/14/09
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Idiots and Angels (2008)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:8
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Genre: Animation
Director: Bill Plympton
Reviews for Idiots and Angels
1 - 8 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
A dystopian commentary on humankind.
08/14/09
Even without a word of dialogue, Plympton's dark fable about the almost unnatural redemption of a lost soul content in its damnation is easily understood, and neatly told.
08/14/09
You're not going to come out of the movie a [Plympton] fan if you don't go in as one.
10/24/08
I like to think Plympton would take it as a compliment if I said he sees human beings as little more than a debased sum of bodily functions.
06/25/08
Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.
05/26/08
Good battles evil as a gun-running, booze-swilling, cigarette-puffing badass is dragged, kicking and screaming, toward salvation in Bill Plympton's slyly sardonic black comedy, his best animated feature to date.
05/07/08
Top CriticBeautifully creepy... Less concerned with gags than nimble storytelling and wide-screen aesthetics (every brooding corner of the frame is blotted in monochromatic noir hues), Plympton mines elegance from the utterly gonzo.
05/05/08
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