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64 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante
  • Summary: As a Latin American nation nears collapse under a highly organized terrorist movement, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas (Bardem) faces the greatest challenge of his career: to catch the mysterious guerilla leader Ezequiel. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    90
    Patient and plodding -- but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    88
    A story of obsession and honor, deception and self-deception set against a sharply etched landscape of political upheaval and intrigue. Malkovich orchestrates all this with assuredness, and Bardem, looking weary and worn, inhabits his character with a realness, a truth, that's downright spooky. And beautiful.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    60
    Though he never quite rescues the film, Bardem continually suggests the tensions bubbling under the surface that Dancer itself never penetrates.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4

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