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Anesthesia

2015

Tim Blake Nelson

Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol ...

5.8

211

Drama. Thriller Columbia University philosophy professor Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston) is wounded during a violent mugging. In an effort to escape he rings buzzers indiscriminately, waking Sam, a middle aged father of two having an affair in the city. Sam reluctantly answers Zarrow's pleas, and Zarrow loses consciousness in his arms. Through an exploration of why these men, along with the mugger, and an addict named Joe, come together, we explore New ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Lacking epic pretensions and modest in scale, running under 90 minutes, Anesthesia is really closer in spirit to Rodrigo García’s delicate 2005 gem, 'Nine Lives.' And it doesn’t waste a word or an image"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The cast is strong, but the movie itself is a little exhausting, like a New York cousin to Paul Haggis’ Crash, with a smaller budget and a bigger vocabulary"	NEU
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"The editing and the compositions here can be slightly ungainly, and some of the characters are not quite fully realized, but Nelson ultimately transcends the limits of his own material (...) This film demands to be taken very seriously, and it earns that right"	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Overall the film plays like an annotated philosophy lecture (...) Despite the generally talented cast of Anesthesia, its linked-lives format, which we’ve seen so many times before, is frustrating"	NEU
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A heartfelt but heavy-handed essay on human interaction and isolation"	NEU

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