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Alexandra's Project
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Alexandra's Project reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Jack Christie, and Samantha Knigge

It's Steve's (Sweet) birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra (Buday) and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch. (Film Movement)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Rolf de Heer  
DIRECTED BY: Rolf de Heer  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: April 5, 2005 
Theatrical: February 18, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Australia 

Nominated, Golden Berlin Bear, 2003 Berlin International Film Festival

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90
Film Threat Eric Campos
Incredible because for a 100 minute movie, Alexandra's Project passes like 30. Incredible also that most of those 100 minutes take place in a single living room. It's the tension and performances that pull you through, never letting your attention stray from what's going down on-screen.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
Actress Helen Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger.
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70
Variety David Stratton
The punishment seems out of all proportion to the "crimes" committed, so that the film becomes no simplistic pro-feminist tract but is, on the contrary, more complex and disturbing.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Macpherson keep things creepy and mystifying. But that damn videotape takes the edge off the mood both visually and dramatically.
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60
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
But de Heer's high-concept feminist tract loses some of its integrity over time, as it slowly devolves into a seedy, voyeuristic thriller that takes all too much pleasure in turning the screws.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle John McMurtrie
But the film suffers from a major and unforgivable flaw, one that grows more implausible and ridiculous over time.
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