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Arlington Road
Sony Pictures Entertainment / Screen Gems Inc.
MPAA RATING: R for violence and some language
Starring
Jeff Bridges,
Tim Robbins,
Joan Cusack,
Hope Davis,
Robert Gossett,
Mason Gamble,
Spencer Treat Clark,
and
Stanley Anderson
A gripping contemporary thriller about the terrible truths that can hide behind everyday appearances, Arlington Road is an intense, edge-of-your-seat journey that reveals just how little we know about the world around us.
(Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ehren Kruger
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Mark Pellington
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 11, 2001
Video: May 1, 2001
Theatrical: July 9, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
117 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Arlington Road belongs to that splendid Hollywood tradition of dealing with serious, timely issues in the form of a suspense thriller.

80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
It plays lots of cool mind games with the audience -- if in an occasionally incoherent way -- and ends up providing a surprising amount of fun.

80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
While this film's conception of a terrorist threat is apparent early on, its strength lies in a string of ingenious little surprises.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An intelligent, insidiously plotted Hitchcockian thriller directed in souped-up, modern expressionistic style.

80
LA Weekly
John Patterson
Despite its flaws, Arlington Road romps home as an absorbing, unpredictable thriller.

80
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
Arlington Road does a nice job of keeping things speculative enough to remain interesting.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Slippery issues about trust, parental responsibility, and the inalienable American right to personal and political freedom are ceded to Hollywood's inalienable right to stage high-pitched chase scenes and a shocking big finish.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Deceptively keen as both a paranoid political thriller and a caveat against the trustworthiness of your friends and neighbors.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Although it takes something of a slog to get there, this thriller finally comes through where it counts.

70
Film.com
John Hartl
Before it finally twists itself into a pretzel in the third act, this paranoid thriller creates a scary mood and allows its leading actors to go all the way with it.

70
Film.com
Tom Keogh
If you don't ponder too much the script's muddled, self-serving influences, Arlington Road succeeds at discomforting a viewer and making one apt to look over one's shoulder for a day or two.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A movie where style and craft are fatally confused with substance, and where almost no effort is made to make the characters seem like believable people.

70
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
If the bad guys in the real world were all this obvious, life would be a whole lot easier.

70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Though a thematically ambitious and deftly acted thriller, the film is also shockingly coldblooded and not a little reactionary.

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
What will divide viewers is the plot; either the ending makes no sense or it forces you to rethink everything that went before.

67
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Amidst the rubble of political rhetoric that underlies Arlington Road, one thing is clear: The enemy is us.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A classy but over-contrived topical thriller about bomb plots and anti-government groups.

60
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The mode is hysteric-Hitchcockian, the result mostly devoid of suspense.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Although the film starts out with well-mounted menace, Arlington Road becomes increasingly overwrought and predictable.

60
New Times (L.A.)
Hal Hinson
Even before the film has worked up a head of steam, it has started to pile up the improbabilities, giving us reason to question its credibility.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A clumsy and incompetent thriller for nine-tenths of its length, but it has an ending so clever and that goes so wildly against expectations it almost exonerates the film.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The screenplay stretches the viewer's credulity far beyond the breaking point, asking us to accept dozens of absurd contrivances and coincidences.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The idiosyncratic instrumentation and melodies in the score by Angelo Badalamenti ("Blue Velvet") and a masterful opening scene are wasted on this pathetic thriller.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A successful thriller makes you forget such impossibilities, but here they poison every scene.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A conspiracy thriller that begins well and makes good points, but it flies off the rails in the last 30 minutes.

10
Film Threat
Ron Wells
This masterpiece started out at around three stars, but after the credits, it just got sillier and more lurid.


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