The Dancer Upstairs
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings
- 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)
- Director: John Malkovich
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Positive: 28 out of 40
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Mixed: 12 out of 40
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90Patient and plodding -- but as realized by John Malkovich, in his directorial debut, utterly absorbing.
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80The Dancer Upstairs, is a haunting and often beautiful work, part doomed romance and part political thriller, that demonstrates the adult command of the medium Malkovich has always demonstrated as an actor.
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80The movie does an admirable job of juggling political, dramatic and comic elements.
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60Though he never quite rescues the film, Bardem continually suggests the tensions bubbling under the surface that Dancer itself never penetrates.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
