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09/12/03
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:19
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Unintelligible and self-indulgent Bob Dylan vehicle.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Masked and Anonymous possesses such creative audacity, such a flow of ideas and provoking observations, transported by a barrage of wit, performance, and, of course, song, that you are bound to... [More]
Starring: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman
Director: Larry Charles
Reviews for Masked and Anonymous
How much you end up liking the film probably relates to how much you sympathize with Dylan or Dylan-like characters.
09/11/03
Bob Dylan plays a thinly-disguised version of himself in this entertainingly overwritten star vehicle.
09/09/03
As a lifelong devotee of Dylan's music, I found this far and away the best of the four movies he's made, in large measure because it's chock-full of his music and dramatically structured like one of his epic tirades.
09/05/03
The stellar but misguided cast ... is simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.
09/05/03
A fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio.
09/05/03
It is messy, defiant, pretentious and bold, and even when it's not very good, it is interesting.
09/05/03
The music is great. Dylan and his band do a half-dozen songs that crackle with energy.
09/04/03
...something is happening here, but you don't know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones? Well, maybe not, but I know what I like.
09/04/03
This tarted-up mishmash of loopy ideology and pining for the old days makes you happy the 1960s are over.
08/29/03
What Masked and Anonymous does best is bring to mind the words of another solitary dude, Clint Eastwood: 'A man's gotta know his limitations.'
08/28/03
Movies are much too representational and finite to accommodate the Möbius strips of Dylan's language.
08/27/03
An exercise in celebrity self-worship so stiff and impenetrable it could only come from the warped mind of Bob Dylan in his dotage.
08/19/03
Self-indulgent twaddle...pretentious but impenetrable babble.
08/19/03
Undoubtedly a failure, yet an endlessly fascinating one...
08/18/03
A vanity production beyond all reason.
08/15/03
Top CriticThe film strains for some kind of meaning but asks you to do the work it can't and won't perform on its own.
08/15/03
There's a cracked integrity to the picture that eventually won me over.
08/15/03
I consider the film to be one of the great achievements of the year and a key piece of the puzzle that is Bob Dylan.
08/15/03
If Seinfeld is the late sitcom about nothing, M&A is the feature about something. It's just that some of us out here in the hinterland can't figure out what it is.
08/15/03
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