'R Xmas
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
- Summary: In this thriller, an idyllic Christmas is shattered by a bitter drug-related feud in upper-Manhattan.
- Director: Abel Ferrara
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 5 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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80A lean, well-contained slice-of-life at 83 minutes, 'R Xmas finds the director making a confident return to the hard-nosed realism on which he's staked his maverick reputation.
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60Like any self-respecting Ferrara film, 'R Xmas has its intimations of hellfire, yet it's a weirdly benign Christmas fable -- something like "Miracle on 134th Street."
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60Cinematographer Ken Kelsch, Ferrara's frequent collaborator, picks up the theme of overlapping lives by layering images within scenes -- the ongoing interplay of reflections and shadows is breathtaking -- and through slow, shimmering dissolves.
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33A seedy little movie with little in the way of theme, purpose, energy or wit, 'R Xmas is the latest slice-of-death drama from that earnest maestro of grub, Abel Ferrara.
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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