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100Seeps with melancholy, old wounds, repressed anger, lust. That it is also caustically funny and heartwarming is miraculous.
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100Unfolds like quietly engrossing short fiction, reminding us that there are few things more pleasurable than being in the hands of a good storyteller.
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90A handsome, absorbing debut feature by the fiction and television writer Henry Bromell.
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90Inspired, sublime fun.
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Anyone interested in serious film should absolutely not miss it.
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Graced by bleak, stylized direction and an insightful ending that suggests that nothing ever really ends, this first feature film by "Northern Exposure" and "Homicide" writer and producer Bromell is a promising debut.
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88In the full-house ensemble of Henry Bromell's Panic, Neve Campbell is the wild card.
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83Panic never lets you forget that Donald Sutherland can be one of America's greatest actors.
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80From the opening lines to the epilogue (one of the film's few misfires), this taut first feature from TV producer and novelist Henry Bromell sustains a taut mood of unease and isolation, and the ensemble performances (TV starlet Campbell's included) have the qualities of the highest-caliber stage work.
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80A small movie, to be sure, but it's also a thoroughly original one.
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80Enigmas make Panic involving, and suspenseful.
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80A black-comedy gem.
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80A sneaky and smart film noir.
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78Hopefully find the audience it deserves.
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75This bleak, oh-so-dark comedy is one of the best movies you almost didn't get to see.
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75A small gem in the postholiday depression.
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75A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare, it deserves not to fall through the cracks.
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75Not the kind of movie anyone will remember at Oscar time. But no one who sees it will forget it.
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75A nifty little neo-film noir that's a lot more intriguing and watchable than half the films that make it to the multiplexes.
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70Steeped in metaphor as it is, Panic offers a more naturalistic analysis of male midlife crisis than the grotesquely overpraised "American Beauty."
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70A lot of this is quite well done, but Bromell has a tendency to have too schematic an aesthetic agenda for his story: treating film noir like kabuki is not necessarily the best way to go, no matter how beautifully you do it.
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60This bright noir, with gleaming cinematography by Jeffrey Jur, is as single-minded as a short story, but the premise is almost too clever.
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50The atmosphere is more compelling than the plot, but the story does pack a surprise or two.
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50Boasts some genuinely intelligent and funny sequences and some nicely painful scenes of domestic tension - as well as surprisingly strong performances from actors like Neve Campbell and Donald Sutherland.
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JayH6Fine story, a little too slow moving, but the cast is great, particularly William H. Macy. Good writing. Barbara Bain is fine in a supporting role.
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