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64 out of 100

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  • Starring: Anthony Edwards, Duel Farnes, Nick Nolte
  • Summary: In the next two days, the town of Northfork, Montana will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a new hydroelectric project. Its citizens are heading for higher ground. With the exception of a few stoic resistors. (Paramount Classics)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 5 out of 31
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    There has never been a movie quite like Northfork… The movie is visionary and elegiac, more a fable than a story, and frame by frame, it looks like a portfolio of spaces so wide, so open, that men must wonder if they have a role beneath such indifferent skies.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Nick Dawson
    60
    Every tiny aspect of the universe here comes from the filmmakers' imagination, and while this occasionally leaves us bemused, the film as a whole is a magical, otherworldly trip into undiscovered areas of cinema.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    38
    An insufferably artsy, pretentious work, the sort of picture that gives art films a bad name.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 9 out of 18
  1. JohnY.
    8
    Not a masterpiece, but a visually stunning work that has a pace and mood that's all its own. At times, it's quite mesmerizing.
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