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Idiots and Angels (2008)

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Reviews Counted:8

Fresh:8

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Average Rating:7.3/10

Genre: Animation

Director: Bill Plympton

Director: Bill Plympton

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4/5

Jim Slotek

Seldom has a black heart been served up so vividly.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 14 2009 12:59 PM

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3/4

Michael Posner

A dystopian commentary on humankind.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 14 2009 12:12 PM

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2.5/4

Greg Quill

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 14 2009 10:47 AM

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7/10

Tim Brayton

You're not going to come out of the movie a [Plympton] fan if you don't go in as one.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 24 2008 09:54 PM

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Keith Uhlich

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 25 2008 03:59 PM

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3.5/5

Amber Wilkinson

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 26 2008 03:15 AM

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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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 07 2008 03:15 AM

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Aaron Hillis

Beautifully 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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 05 2008 04:26 PM

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