House of Sand and Fog
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71 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 82 Ratings

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  • Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Ron Eldard
  • Summary: A gripping exploration of the American Dream gone awry, House of Sand and Fog is the story of two people driven to desperate measures to claim ownership of a house. (DreamWorks Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 41
  3. Negative: 1 out of 41
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    It stands with integrity and breaks our hearts.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    80
    The performances are amazing.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    60
    There's a desperately inevitable, powerfully tragic last reel, but getting there is absolute torture.
  4. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    30
    This is a movie that sends you out shuddering, chuckling nervously, wanting to tell the people in line for the next show, "It's the feel-bad movie of the year!"

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 49 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 57
  3. Negative: 8 out of 57
  1. RitaP.
    10
    Not often I consider a film a perfect 10 but there is no other score for a film of this quality.
  2. cameronmorewood
    10
    The film has a brilliant urgency to it. It is also unrelenting and unmerciful. House of Sand and Fog isn't a blow to the head, it's a blow to the soul.… Expand
  3. DeWayneP.
    10
    Brilliant! Films just don't get better than this.
  4. HomeReviewer
    8
    Throughout this movie, the talented Vadim Perelman uses beautiful cinematographic moments to enhance the already heavy melodrama that is 'House of Sand and Fog'. There are no better words to describe the genre of this movie than tragedy, and that's why so, so many of the reviews use it. It was exactly that, a tragedy. The talented Ben Kingsley was certainly a good choice to play the lead role here; no one can play foreign characters with as much attention to details, deliver high emotion with as much reserve as Kingsley. My last review (You Kill Me) where he was mentioned happens to have referred to this movie 'House of Sandâ… Expand

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