Allan Mindel's directing debut gives off the smug air of hipsters at play, making it hard to care what happens to any of its lost souls and inept opportunists.
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06/03/05
Milwaukee, Minnesota (2005)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:13
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Troy Garrity shines as the mentally challenged Albert Burroughs in Allan Mindel's debut feature film, MILWAUKEE, MINNESOTA. Set in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the well-written tale centers on... [More]
Starring: Troy Garrity, Alison Folland, Randy Quaid, Bruce Dern
Director: Allan Mindel
Reviews for Milwaukee, Minnesota
Solid acting by a cast headed by Troy Garity -- and striking cinematography by Bernd Heinl -- helps redeem Allan Mindel's never-quite-believable crime drama Milwaukee, Minnesota.
06/03/05
Why do filmmakers persist in believing that we want to watch actors pretend to be mentally challenged?
06/03/05
The busyness of the story, filled with conventional crime-plot scams and devices, only further exposes the narrative's thinness.
06/02/05
It's satisfied to be a series of monkeyshines in which Albert tries to stay one step ahead of the opportunists -- a task certainly easy enough for the audience.
06/02/05
Top CriticFirst-time director Allen Mindel is too lackadaisical in pushing the story along. By the time the narrative picks up steam, we've lost ours.
06/02/05
A very uneven dark comedy.
06/02/05
Milwaukee captures stark snowscapes better than any movie since Fargo, and the mysterious image that ends the film is one of the most evocative final shots of the year.
06/02/05
It's Milwaukee, Minnesota that turns out to be, as Tuey might put it, mildly "retarded."
06/01/05
In spite of fighting performances by Quaid and Dern, its hard to bite on this ice-fishing pot-boiler.
06/01/05
First-timer Allan Mindel nails the snowbound rhythms of upper Midwestern life and orchestrates a near perfect ending, a fade-to-white over an unlikely promised land.
05/31/05
Being grandiose would ruin the effect of this humble, winning feature.
05/31/05
Producer Allan Mindel's directorial debut is a modest, old-fashioned indie about an eccentric loner and a band of outsiders who try to exploit him
05/31/05
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12/03/04
A waste of time, really, but Josh Brolin's inexplicable cameo as a lingerie-wearing thug has to be seen to be believed.
04/24/04
While the actors do make the movie tolerable, they don't save it. A complete script overhaul is the only thing that can do that.
04/24/04
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