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(Untitled)

EMAILPRINTSamuel Goldwyn Films

(Untitled) reviews
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6.0 User Score:

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Based on 19 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Jonathan Parker
Catherine DiNapoli

Directed by: Jonathan Parker

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 23, 2009

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language and nude images

Starring Adam Goldberg, Marley Shelton, and Vinnie Jones

A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic take on the state of contemporary art. The composer's work calls for paper crumpling, glass breaking and bucket kicking. The gorgeous Chelsea gallerist's latest show features an artist, who employs taxidermy and household objects. Further complicating the affair is the composer's brother, whose highly commercial art work - the financial backbone of the gallery - is sold to corporate clients discreetly out of the gallery's back room. (Parker Film Company)

What The Critics Said

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Those willing to meet (Untitled) even part way will discover a comedy of intelligence and wit, with some strong performances.

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91

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The whole cast is museum quality, and the ''music'' performances are pitch-perfect in their dissonance.

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88

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A comedy worthy of the best Woody Allen, and Adrian is not unlike Woody's persona: a sincere, intense, insecure nebbish, hopeless with women, aiming for greatness.

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75

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

Significantly cleverer than its moniker, even though it picks for its satire one of the most inviting targets on record: the world of contemporary art.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Walking the line between the movie’s broad strokes and its near-perfect pitch is the art itself, which has been designed and constructed by a team of smart designers.

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70

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

As in the best movie satires, there's a solid core of truth informing director Jonathan Parker's (Untitled), which takes on the New York art and music worlds in one smart and funny swoop.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

(Untitled) assembles a collection of vivid character-types, sometimes a breath short of caricature. But for all its sharp comic angles, Jonathan Parker's film takes its central questions seriously and avoids the pat follow-your-bliss answers Hollywood prefers.

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70

The New York Times Stephen Holden

If “(Untitled)” shrewdly hedges its bets about the value of it all, it is ultimately on the side of experimental music and art and their champions, no matter how eccentric. For that alone this brave little movie deserves an audience.

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The three main characters aren’t cardboard-cutout poseurs, and for that alone, (Untitled) stands apart.

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55

NPR Ian Buckwalter

(Untitled) does have great moments, particularly in its technical execution -- the director began his career as a musician, and his command of sound design is particularly imaginative.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This dark comedy by screenwriters Jonathan Parker and Catherine DiNapoli frequently uses a .44 Magnum when a pea shooter would suffice.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

A surer hand behind the camera might’ve finessed the jokes more effectively, or established a consistent and satisfying tone.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Satire without teeth is sort of a mewling entity that brings little into sharp focus. Nevertheless, the performances here are all stellar, and narrative movies that take the making of art seriously are a rare breed indeed.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Although (Untitled) makes a spirited effort to mine comedy from its outre characters and the orbits they inhabit, the picture feels thin and wan, like a joke you've heard 100 times too many.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

The film veers between cutting parody and cliche, threatening to become interesting at any moment, but never quite doing so.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

In mistaking obvious observations for cutting insight, writer-director Jonathan Parker becomes what he lampoons.

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40

Village Voice Melissa Anderson

A film only Hilton Kramer could love, (Untitled) aims wide and misses.

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25

New York Post Kyle Smith

The movie (Untitled) is a tinny satire destined to go "(Unwatched)" because it is "(Uninteresting)."

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20

Time Out New York Kevin B. Lee

(Untitled)’s onslaught of self-indulgent bohos and art-vs.-commerce clichés are as ersatz as their objects of scorn.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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