- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Jan 12, 2007
- Starring: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake
- Summary: Versatile filmmaker Nick Cassavetes directs an impressive group of both young and veteran performers in Alpha Dog, inspired by actual events, a film that follows three fateful days when the lives of a group of Southern California teens suddenly dead-ended. (Universal)
- Director: Nick Cassavetes
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 30
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Mixed: 17 out of 30
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Negative: 1 out of 30
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80In his best film to date, Nick Cassavetes directs with ferocious energy, taking scenes past their logical stopping points and pushing his actors (particularly Foster, who can be as terrifying as Edward Norton in "American History X") to, but never over, the precipice of absurdity.
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60Your enjoyment of Alpha Dog may very well depend on how put off you are by these facts, as well as how much you buy Timberlake in his role, and how in the mood you are to sit through "River's Edge" set in the "Entourage" universe.
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25Its main feature is incessant, unimaginative profanity...Take out the cursing, and you're left with a plebeian drama about angry, aimless potheads, sloppily directed by the man who wrote it.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 32
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Mixed: 2 out of 32
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Negative: 12 out of 32
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ChristopherW.4
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GaborA.2
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