A rare cinematic experience on every level. There's been nothing like it on theater screens for a very long time, and it serves as a reminder of that fact.
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07/29/09
Tetro (2009)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:47
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Almost four decades after he wrote THE CONVERSATION, Francis Ford Coppola returns to original screenwriting with this personal drama about an Argentine-Italian family. TETRO stars Vincent Gallo and... [More]
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Tetro
A dazzling mess... it throbs with an excess of emotion and idealistic, cuckoo daring.
07/25/09
Tetro is a maddening mix of the glorious and the inept.
07/24/09
It would be a better coffee-table book than film.
07/17/09
Tetro percolates with energy and bawdy knockabout humor.
07/16/09
The Coppola who was master of the 1970s ... is back, and that should make every cinephile weep with joy
07/11/09
Visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else.
07/10/09
There's still much to admire in the visual craft and offbeat cultural sampling Coppola heroically brings to a homogenized cinema, but Tetro rides off the rails.
07/03/09
Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point.
06/27/09
Coppola has made some of the greatest films ever made in traditional narrative mode, but whenever he goes into his indie-outsider dance, he stumbles badly.
06/19/09
The movie is alive from beginning to end, and it's a pleasure to see at least one big-name director get out of the prison of his own reputation.
06/19/09
For beauty, vision and the palpable sense of a veteran filmmaker still reveling in possibility, it's something to see.
06/19/09
Even the most deftly executed scenes are smothered in the Oedipal weight of past betrayals while they struggle to support the operatic melodrama that unfolds.
06/18/09
Coppola is still very much alive.
06/18/09
Tetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy.
06/18/09
Equally engrossing and moving, depicting that people can't run from memories or argue with their heart.
06/18/09
Here is a film that, for all of its plot, depends on characters in service of their emotional turmoil. It feels good to see Coppola back in form.
06/18/09
Top CriticTetro fuses the awkward and the ripely operatic.
06/17/09
Francis Ford Coppola gives you a lot to digest here and I appreciate that.
06/15/09
It is long and slow and, most importantly, lacking in dramatic tension.
06/15/09
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