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Gerry

2002

Gus Van Sant

Casey Affleck, Matt Damon

5.8

5,690

Adventure. Drama Two guys named Gerry (Damon and Affleck) are stranded in the desert during a hiking expedition. Improvisation and dehydration follow.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity. The longer the movie ran, the less I liked it and the more I admired it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[An] arty exercise that strands Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (...) in a desert with little to say and do except lose themselves in an existential wasteland of doomed beauty (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Zzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Ulph. Umph. Ach. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"With all its quirks, 'Gerry' seeps into your pores like the wind-whipped sand that stings the faces of these disoriented hikers."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"If you can imagine 'Dude, Where's My Car?' rewritten by Samuel Beckett, you have some idea of what this intriguing, ferociously austere, but subtly and unlocatably humorous picture feels like."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"The filmmaker has lost his bearings (...) With the exception of fests and a few high art venues in France and elsewhere, this defiantly uncommunicative picture has nowhere to go."	NEG
United Kingdom	Alex Rayner Empire	"Very little actually happens, but if you are patient enough to sit through it, you'll catch some stunning scenery, as well as the occasional bit of engaging improvisation and interplay from the actors (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Gus Van Sant says this 2001 feature was inspired by Bela Tarr, James Benning, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jacques Tati, and Chantal Akerman, among others, but it's far below the level of any of these filmmakers at their best"	NEG

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