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65 out of 100

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  • Summary: Based on the eponymous novel by one-time San Quentin inmate Edward Bunker, Animal Factory portrays the manufacture of a hardened criminal out of the middle-class clay of a newly imprisoned and once promising young man. (Silver Nitrate Releasing)

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Amy Taubin
    80
    Tender, poignant, and homoerotically charged, this complicated father-son relationship is brought to life by two brilliant actors and a director who's canny enough to give them all the room they need.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    80
    One of the least sensationalistic--and therefore, more unsettlingly plausible--visions of prison life ever transfigured into big-screen drama.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    There's something surprisingly sweet at the center of this grim prison drama.

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