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Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
  • Release Date: Oct 21, 2009
Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    90
    The filmmaker uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy--which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Richard Kuipers
    90
    An enthralling docudrama that examines the Dutch master's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," for proof that it was responsible for his dramatic fall from grace.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Kerr
    80
    Greenaway is first and foremost a deft storyteller and filmmaker -- and a cheeky art historian. An appreciation of art isn't necessary to enjoy Rembrandt's J'Accuse, and Greenaway goes to great lengths to draw the artistically illiterate into the story.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    70
    Generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing.
  5. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    60
    Part alt–art-history lesson and part pilot for CSI: The Louvre, Peter Greenaway's deconstruction of Rembrandt's 1642 painting The Night Watch contends that the work is--after the Mona Lisa, Da Vinci's The Last Supper and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel--the fourth best-known artwork in the world.
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