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Short Cuts

1993

Robert Altman

Madeleine Stowe, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins ...

7.4

10,862

Drama Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Funny, moving and innovative (...) Short Cuts is an intimate epic, but every frame of this wide-screen film is packed with revealing details"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"A masterful collage of Los Angeles as a madhouse, echoing, but vastly improving upon, Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Most films have trouble enough telling one story, but Altman makes juggling a trunk load of them seem easy"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A cynical, sexist and shallow work from cinema's premier misanthrope, Robert Altman, who here shows neither compassion for -- nor insight into -- the human condition"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"This is Altman working at the transcendent peak of his powers, creating a movie that, in its richness and scope, its dazzling emotional sprawl, asks to be measured against his greatest achievement, Nashville."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The real star is Altman, whose fluid, clean camera style, free-and-easy editing, and effortless organisation of a complex narrative are quite simply the mark of a master."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Like all memorable Altman works, "Short Cuts" openly celebrates movie making as a communal endeavor."	POS

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