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Mads13

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Next to One Hour Photo, this is my next favorite film where Robin Williams shows his fantastic ability to perform dark, dramatic roles.
This show did have a nice running dark tone, despite it being in Alaska during their season of perpetual...
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Next to One Hour Photo, this is my next favorite film where Robin Williams shows his fantastic ability to perform dark, dramatic roles.
This show did have a nice running dark tone, despite it being in Alaska during their season of perpetual daylight. Pacino and Williams were well cast, playing against each other.

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Posted may 11, 2008 11:55 am pt

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First of all the fact that Al Pacino is in it makes it worth seeing. I thought it was a good movie, it didn't really blow me away wit the suspense but it had a good storyline and an excellent cast. It isn't the type of movie I'd watch over and...
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First of all the fact that Al Pacino is in it makes it worth seeing. I thought it was a good movie, it didn't really blow me away wit the suspense but it had a good storyline and an excellent cast. It isn't the type of movie I'd watch over and over again, which is why it doesn't get 4 or 5 stars.

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Posted jan 28, 2007 3:28 am pt

• [+] USA Today
  
  100
  A perfect fit between filmmaker (Memento's Christopher Nolan) and material (Norway's same-name psycho-chiller from 1997), this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  100
  A rare case of an American remake that actually improves on a European movie.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  It's taut, tense and terrific.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  Something to treasure: a thriller whose style, structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story, you cannot separate them.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  100
  About as good a movie as you could have hoped for. Really good. Hole-in-one good.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Superb psychological thriller.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  90
  The anomalous proliferation of scenic beauty gives Mr. Nolan irony to play with, and he uses it spectacularly. The director and his gifted cinematographer, Wally Pfister, are clearly turned on by all this wasted beauty.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  Insomnia shows an equally welcome ability: a gift of creating intelligent, engrossing popular entertainment.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  Gripping, highly dramatic thriller that more than confirms the distinctive talent of young Brit helmer Christopher Nolan.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  88
  Unlike most remakes, the Nolan "Insomnia" is not a pale retread, but a re-examination of the material, like a new production of a good play.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  88
  Less gloriously showy than "Memento," but it proves you can still craft fine art under the auspices of a big studio.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  83
  Despite the cat-and-mouse games between cop and criminal, this is less a battle of wills than one man's battle for his own soul. Nolan bravely treads where few American films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity -- and emerges with a compelling portrait.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  80
  Sensationally made and in patches pretty nerve-jangling.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  Nolan gets his two larger-than-life leads playing off each other in the same frame (which is something Michael Mann couldn't pull off in "Heat's" pairing of Pacino and De Niro) and coaxes a melancholy turn from Pacino, an icon of angst whose real strength has always been his capacity for eloquent silence.

  by John Powers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  80
  It might, however, have been a greater film if its villain were as compelling as its flawed hero. Williams is effectively creepy, but next to Pacino’s rich, multileveled portrait he seems one-note, and one we’ve seen before.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »