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- 2002
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 39 m
- 2002
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 39 m
Summary Set in the early 1980's, this is the story of a man (Burns) who must save his younger brother (Wood) from Irish and Italian gangsters.
Directed By: Edward Burns
Written By: Edward Burns
- 2002
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 39 m
- 2002
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 39 m
Ash Wednesday
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Summary Set in the early 1980's, this is the story of a man (Burns) who must save his younger brother (Wood) from Irish and Italian gangsters.
Directed By: Edward Burns
Written By: Edward Burns
Where to Watch
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Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
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1 Review
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
40
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable, with a sterling ensemble cast.
Ambitious, guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting.
Burns' films are invariably better directed and scripted than they are performed, and Ash Wednesday is no exception. Pic's biggest drawback is that the helmer has again cast himself in the leading role.
The impish Wood is a little light as Sean, who's inextricably bound by same family ties that robbed him of a promising future and made him a fugitive from the only life he's even known, but the supporting cast is top-notch.
Russell Fine's kinetic camerawork outperforms the plot.
We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out.
This time Mr. Burns is trying something in the Martin Scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.
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