Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:55
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Wristcutters: A Love Story sounds like a normal enough indie flick. Boy meets girl. Boy gets separated from girl. Boy goes on a road trip with friends to find girl and gains a new perspective on life. Except everybody's dead.
Theatrical Release:23-11-2007
Synopsis: If a film begins with a suicide, chances are, it won't be the feel-good movie of the year. But WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY is surprisingly sweet and funny even as it proudly features a dark streak... [More]
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits
Director: Goran Dukic
Reviews for Wristcutters: A Love Story
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 1/5 |
It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close. Full Review |
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2/5 |
A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Veering from witty to occasionally trite, Wristcutters: A Love Story has plenty of originality on its side, but never manages to be more than the sum of its self-consciously quirky parts. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life. Full Review |
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3/5 |
For the better part of the journey this a bizarrely uplifting yarn - razor sharp, you might say. Full Review |
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2/6 |
Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Enjoyably quirky black comedy that's clearly destined to become a cult movie amongst the Gothic contingent. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Despite being occasionally hilarious, director Goran Dukic should have toned down the wackiness. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Another indie director more interested in style than substance. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Sossamon and Fugit are so perfectly cast you can't help but sigh every time they glance at each other and their final scene is guaranteed to send you home with a smile a mile wide. Full Review |
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3/5 |
While it's quirky and intriguing, this is the kind of wilfully nutty black comedy that treads the extremely thin line between inventiveness and pretentiousness. Full Review |
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C+ |
Having some laughs over suicide. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Wristcutters: A Love Story is like a suicidal Wizard of Oz. Full Review |
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It's certainly melancholic, occasionally funny, and ultimately life-affirming. But overall, it feels as if writer-director Goran Dukic dropped a rather promising ball. Full Review |
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B- |
It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits. Full Review |
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it is, like the limbo it portrays, a peculiar hybrid of recognisable, second-hand elements that somehow add up to something entirely sui generis - an idiosyncratic piece of magical realism whose characters are literally on the road to nowhere. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Click to read the article Full Review |
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2/5 |
If you’re going to make a comedy about suicide, you’d better make sure the jokes land. There are people out there who could use a laugh. Full Review |
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