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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Artists Public Domain
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Artists Public Domain
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed ...

Directed By: Alex Ross Perry

Written By: Carlen Altman, Alex Ross Perry

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Artists Public Domain
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Artists Public Domain
  • 1 h 23 m

The Color Wheel

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed ...

Directed By: Alex Ross Perry

Written By: Carlen Altman, Alex Ross Perry

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
53
22% Positive
2 Reviews
78% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
May 14, 2012
Much like the work of generational cohort Michael Robinson, Alex Ross Perry's films are steeped in a viscous cultural past.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
75
May 17, 2012
You can feel the movie building away from the whiny comedy and toward something more emotionally raw then something sexually weird.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
60
May 17, 2012
A singularly unpleasant movie: full of obnoxious characters in scenes that seem overwritten and under-rehearsed, oblivious to the most basic standards of tonal consistency, narrative coherence or visual decorum. But it is also sly, daring, genuinely original and at times perversely brilliant.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 7, 2012
You might not "like" Perry's movie, but it's hard to deny the forensically assured sensibility at work.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
50
May 31, 2012
As an indulgence in creative verbal abuse, the film offers some nasty fun.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
40
May 15, 2012
Some will call The Color Wheel daring. Others will remember that it takes more than desperate shocks to add substance to the sloppy diddlings of a dilettante.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
40
May 8, 2012
The Color Wheel is funny, but it has a dark streak that takes it into increasingly creepy territory as the siblings face down a procession of people who are even more screwed-up than they are.
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17% Mixed
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33% Negative
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33% Negative
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Release Date May 18, 2012
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline A comedic symphony of disappointment and forgiveness.
Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Color-Wheel/179811005395200
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Awards

Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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