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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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45
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42
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42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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xx
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Judy Berlin
Shooting Gallery
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Barbara Barrie,
Bob Dishy,
Edie Falco,
Aaron Harnick,
Madeline Kahn,
Julie Kavner,
and
Anne Meara
When the small suburban town of Babylon, Long Island, in engulfed in the darkness of a strange solar eclipse, two former classmates (Harnick and Falco) pass the day reminiscing. (Shooting Gallery)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Eric Mendelsohn
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Eric Mendelsohn
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 4, 2001
Video: September 4, 2001
Theatrical: February 25, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, B/W |
| 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...
100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.

100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.
100
USA Today
Mike Clark
Tightly constructed and controlled.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Haunting and hopeful.

90
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
An almost perfectly realized poetic vision of people who continue in their everyday existence certain that life in a larger sense has passed them by.

90
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Where "American Beauty" was smug and obvious in its dissection of suburban life, Judy Berlin is hilarious, heartbreaking and -- in its graciousness -- unlike any American film we've seen in a long time.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.

88
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
Beautiful little film.
85
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Captures the emptiness of small-time lives as evocatively as Peter Bogdonavich's "Last Picture Show."

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Philosophy imbues this inescapably self-reflexive movie with a rare compassion.

80
Film.com
Graham Fuller
Etched with sensitivity and wit, above all with an unpatronizing compassion for ordinary people going about their business on an extraordinary day.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Something to get excited about.

80
Film.com
Henry Cabot Beck
Unlikely to draw the audience it deserves, but those who do see it will have a hard time shaking its gentle, ghostly echoes.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A gorgeously crafted love poem.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
With skill and also with love, writer-director Eric Mendelsohn creates a delicate and airy mood, a kind of cinematic haiku.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Its leisurely pace and surreal poetry won't break box-office records, but will surely serve to introduce Mendelsohn as a major new talent.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Laced with magic-realist bittersweetness.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Strikingly original movie.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Broadway-sized performances.
75
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Possesses moments of fleeting grace, pathos and beauty, even if it ultimately doesn't amount to much.
70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
A gentle, offbeat drama that hails the arrival of a new talent in writer-director Eric Mendelsohn, and bids a poignant farewell to a uniquely gifted actress, the late Madeline Kahn.

70
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Numerous lovely, quirky moments.

70
Newsweek
Ted Gideonse
Gorgeous, mesmerizing, and stunningly well acted.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Boasts several fine performances and some elegant, eerie black-and- white photography.
60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Mendelsohn's fusion of science fiction and Chekhovian melancholy finds a fresh perspective on a familiar theme.

50
TNT RoughCut
Don Kaye
More of a moody performance piece than a film.
50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A bit precious, ultimately wearisome.

50
Film.com
John Hartl
Like "American Beauty" without the fangs - or the magic.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Arch yet earnest.

40
Time
Richard Corliss
The film is one-note; misery is the only game in town.


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