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MPAA RATING: R for sequences of strong violence, sexual content and language

Starring Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Anne Brochet, Nikolina Kujaca, Rosemary Murphy, Vlado Jovanovski, and Salaetin Bilal

Set in contemporary New York City and the Macedonia of a century ago (which at the time was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire), the film jumps back and forth across space and time to tell two ultimately intertwined stories: one about an old woman and a burglar in New York, the other about the two American frontier brothers-turned-enemies caught up in battles between Macedonian Slav revolutionaries, Turkish soldiers and ethnic Albanian and Greek gangs.

GENRE(S):	Western
WRITTEN BY:	Milcho Manchevski
DIRECTED BY:	Milcho Manchevski
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 11, 2003 Video: November 11, 2003 Theatrical: August 22, 2003
RUNNING TIME:	127 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	UK / Germany / Italy / Republic of Macedonia

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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story of American brothers.

Variety David Stratton

It's too arty to cut it as a violent action pic and too gore-spattered to appeal to the arthouse crowd.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Three movies in one: a spaghetti Western, an urban drama and a historical epic. All of them suffer from self-indulgent direction, a convoluted script and awkward acting.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Its most impressive aspect is its visual style, patterned to some degree on Sergio Leone westerns. A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent, though.

Village Voice Leslie Camhi

Manchevski has a rare visual intelligence, whether filming the face of a dying woman or Times Square's reflection in a windshield. But in reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, he sacrifices character and motivation.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

A potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking brought down by weighted dialogue and, playing Americans, the British actors Adrian Lester and Joseph Fiennes and the Australian David Wenham.

LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Whatever ghost-story intrigue the film musters gives way to a tedious cycle of fighting, screwing, shouting and storytelling stuck together by two hours worth of hard-boiled dialogue gone gummy.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Dust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

Lurches so wildly and meaninglessly between genres and time frames that all it creates is motion sickness.

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