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Dominican Rep. The Visitor
10,863
Drama
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as Walter Vale, a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City. Through new found connections with virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and ... [+]
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"Even as it goes more or less where you think it will, it still manages to surprise you along the way (...) Objections are, for the most part, dissolved by the clarity and simplicity of Mr. McCarthy’s direction" | POS |
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"This is a wonderful film, sad, angry, and without a comforting little happy ending (...) Jenkins creates a surprisingly touching, very quiet, character study (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)" | POS |
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"Gives viewers a perceptive, deeply personal take on the timeless immigrant narrative, in which the most epic journey is finally one of self-discovery." | POS |
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"The Visitor is Tired and Poor. Preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions in immigrant drama. (...) McCarthy unquestionably means well, but he's made one of those incredibly naïve movies that gives liberals a bad name, and which does more to regress the sociopolitical discourse than advance it." | NEG |
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