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Dominican Rep. Alpha Dog
11,905
Thriller. Mystery. Drama
When a young drug dealer by the name of Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) kidnaps Zack Mazurka (Anton Yelchin), the 15-year-old brother of a man in debt to him, things don't go according to plan. As he desperately tries to get the money owed to him, Johnny's crew looks after Zack. Though a hostage, Zack is enjoying the excitement of his situation, blissfully unaware of the despair of his parents and his brother's rage.
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"Alpha Dog isn't a happy movie, but it's dramatically solid and the impressions it leaves will not be easily shaken." | POS |
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"Don't be fooled by the presence of some pretty-boy actors: Alpha Dog is a gritty, gut-wrenching and disturbing film." | POS |
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"The cretins rule in Alpha Dog, which has much the same entertainment value you get from watching monkeys fling scat at one another in a zoo" | NEG |
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"Around the midpoint Alpha Dog becomes less sociological and more personal, developing a real sense of suspense." | POS |
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"The movie suffers from an uncertain structure, but it boasts an extraordinary naturalism" | POS |
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"Justin Timberlake shows that he can do more as an actor than just take his shirt off - though he does that a lot as well - in the irresponsible, uncommercial but surprisingly watchable Alpha Dog" | POS |
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"Nick Cassavetes seems to have modeled this ambitious docudrama on Larry Clark's kiddie-porn shockers, but he doesn't know what to leave out, and the movie becomes excessively complicated" | NEG |
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"Nick Cassavetes' sprawling dramatization recklessly blurs the line between reconstruction and reality in ways that are admittedly interesting, if more than a little artistically suspect" | POS |
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"The whole thing is dizzying, like "Moulin Rouge" without songs and dances extolling love" | NEU |
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