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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 9 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 9 m
Silver Bullets

Summary Ethan is a director who aims to make meaningful art films, but is struggling with a creative slump and disengagement with his work. His girlfriend Claire, is an actress whose career is beginning to take off. She has accepted the lead part in a werewolf movie being directed by talented young horror filmmaker Ben. Ethan's depression leads...

Directed By: Joe Swanberg

Written By: Joe Swanberg

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 9 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 9 m

Silver Bullets

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59
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Ethan is a director who aims to make meaningful art films, but is struggling with a creative slump and disengagement with his work. His girlfriend Claire, is an actress whose career is beginning to take off. She has accepted the lead part in a werewolf movie being directed by talented young horror filmmaker Ben. Ethan's depression leads...

Directed By: Joe Swanberg

Written By: Joe Swanberg

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75% Positive
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Oct 26, 2011
Joe Swanberg's idea of making audiences "happy" is by acknowledging what his supporters and detractors have been saying about him for a number of years, but presenting these things within the same game of elliptical story-unraveling and confession that's governed most of his other films.
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83
Oct 26, 2011
The line between "highly personal" and "navel-gazing" varies depending on one's feelings toward the person offering up the serving of self-contemplation, but Silver Bullets' introspection feels earned.
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80
Oct 26, 2011
Silver Bullets is the most affecting "horror" movie I've seen in a while, as Swanberg ignores tired supernatural scare-flick trappings and locates terror in the shadowy, passive-aggressive process of making, and watching, movies.
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Oct 27, 2011
Silver Bullets neither pleases the eye nor stimulates the mind.
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5.7
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User Score
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27% Mixed
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36% Negative
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Release Date Oct 28, 2011
Duration 1 h 9 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://silverbullets.officialwebsite.art/
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Awards

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