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Buster's Mal Heart

2016

Sarah Adina Smith

Rami Malek, DJ Qualls, Kate Lyn Sheil, Lin Shaye ...

5.8

918

Fantasy. Mystery. Drama The film follows follows a mountain man on the run from authorities who survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes. He's haunted by a recurring dream of being lost at sea only to discover that the dream is real: He is one man in two bodies.

	Author	Review
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	"Whether he's playfully interacting with his wife and daughter, or delivering a madman's rant to thin air, Malek has the range to be utterly charming, utterly creepy, or both at once."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[It demonstrates] Smith's cinematic intelligence and an acute sympathy for alienated characters."	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"More conceptually interesting than actually entertaining (...) Mileage with the movie may vary on how willing you are to enjoy the journey more than the substance, which is tends becoming slighter as the movie progresses."	NEU
United States	Kenji Fujishima Slant	"Smith successfully maintains an almost surreal atmosphere (...) [It] seems to confuse narrative gimmickry for the sensitive evocation of an inner life (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"And if the story is too tricky to realize its themes or welcome the impatient, it also contains enough empathy to humanize a character who’s part man, part spiritual symbol."	NEU
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Whether you find this sort of thing pretentious or intriguing is, essentially, a matter of taste (...) It all seems like it should add up to something profound, or profoundly silly."	NEU
United States	April Wolfe LA Weekly	"Smith deftly explores the boxed-in lives of a rural service class"	POS

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