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  • Starring: Kathy Baker, Luciana Pedraza, Robert Duvall, RubĂ©n Blades
  • Summary: From acclaimed actor, writer, and director Robert Duvall comes Assassination Tango, a complex thriller, fascinating character study, and provocative look at the intoxicating world of Argentine tango. (United Artists)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 30
  2. Negative: 5 out of 30
  1. Acting doesn't get more personal, or much greater.
  2. A wonderfully eccentric piece of filmmaking -- to demand it cohere to formula would be to miss the point.
  3. 50
    Duvall missteps in trying to mesh suspense with a love story that also involves the woman (Kathy Baker) John J. lives with and her young daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller), on whom he disturbingly dotes.
  4. Assassination Tango is Duvall's fourth, yet it still feels like a first film; worse yet, it feels like a waste of an undeniably great actor.

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