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Masked & Anonymous
Sony Pictures Classics
FILM:
MUSIC:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some language and brief violence
Starring
Bob Dylan,
John Goodman,
Jessica Lange,
Luke Wilson,
Jeff Bridges,
Penelope Cruz,
and
Reggie Lee
Set somewhere, sometime, in an America wracked by an endless and senseless civil war, this is the story of a benefit concert and a musician named Jack Fate (Dylan).
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Bob Dylan
Larry Charles
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Larry Charles
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 17, 2004
Video: February 17, 2004
Theatrical: July 24, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

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...
80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
See it in one glorious shot, grab as much from it as you can and run like hell. I say that not because I hated Masked & Anonymous, but because I loved it.

75
Premiere
Scott Warren
If you dissect Masked line by line, it would be, like a Dylan song, indecipherable. But if you take the allegory as a whole, by simply asking the questions, it somehow makes a statement.
Is it muddled? Yes. Imperfect? Sure. Impenetrable? Well, that's open to interpretation.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
A strange and convoluted film that is as rewarding as a Dylan song, and just as perplexing.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
Isn't a good movie, at least by any conventional definition of the word good. But it's not a bad movie, either. It's a Bob Dylan movie.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A fascinating, vexing, indulgent, visionary, pretentious, mesmerizing pop culture curio.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
This one's painful.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
For all its pretensions and avant-garde narrative dislocations, the star-studded cast...keeps this buzzing.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A messy, ambitious comedy.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
"Masked" is erratic and volatile, too, from scene to scene, moment to moment. The script is chaotic, but the top-flight actors play their hearts out.

40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
The film strains for some kind of meaning, but asks you to do the work it can't and won't perform on its own.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Though Dylan shuffles through the dramatic sequences like a dessicated mummy, the music sequences are strikingly vibrant -- he's never looked worse or sounded better.

40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Only Giovanni Ribisi, with a back-of-the-bus speech about the betrayals of insurgent and counter-insurgent politics, finds a genuine moment. All the same, for some unfathomable reason, Dylan's autumnal self-salute is not particularly difficult to watch.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Bob Dylan might have been wrong when he sang that "theres no success like failure, and failures no success at all." His new movie, although a complete narrative mess, is a thoroughly Dylanesque escapade.

38
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
An apocalyptic Bob Dylan song made cinematic, with all the vision and poetry dissipating in the transfer. It's as if the filmmakers listened to "Desolation Row" just one time too many.

30
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
After a zippy first hour, the wackos wear out their welcome and the director, perversely, fails to show the big concert.

30
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
An unholy, incoherent mess.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The look of the film is great, the soundtrack glorious, but more often than not the dialogue is atrocious, featuring a lot of long-winded gobbledygook.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
There are people who find treasures in celebrities' garbage cans so it's a reasonable gamble they might want to buy tickets to watch their throwaway home-movie projects as well.

25
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The exact cinematic equivalent of a classic Bob Dylan song. It's also proof that what is towering genius in one medium can go insanely wrong in another.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Dylan's performance doesn't offer any clues. He's an icon and he delivers an icon's performance, literally: He could easily have been replaced by piece of wood with his face painted on it. That distance also means he remains more or less untouched by the embarrassment going on around him, even though it's largely his own creation.

20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Evinces no interest in such niceties as credible dialogue, character motivation or forward momentum.

20
Film Threat
Peter Lynch
A nearly complete and total disaster.

12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A vanity production beyond all reason. I am not sure, however, than the vanity is Dylan's. I don't have any idea what to think about him.

10
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Heres a good rule of thumb: Any movie featuring a quote in its ad from the poet laureate of Great BritainDeeply engaging! -- is in trouble.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An incomprehensible Bob Dylan vanity project that is not only nearly impossible to sit through, but embarrasses a long list of stars who lined up to work for scale opposite the legendary musician.


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