The Secret Lives of Dentists
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Starring: Campbell Scott, Denis Leary, Hope Davis
- Summary: With a blend of humor and realism, director Alan Rudolph prods at the complexities, paradoxes and tender beauties of marriage. (Manhattan Pictures International)
- Director: Alan Rudolph
- Genre(s): Drama
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Positive: 32 out of 35
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Mixed: 3 out of 35
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100One of the best pictures so far this year, marking a high point of Rudolph's career and reconfirming the extraordinary talent Mr. Campbell has shown in earlier films. Dentistry will never seem the same.
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80With Scott playing the perfect foil to Leary's exasperated sage, the fantasy sequences are hilariously caustic, but as they accumulate more rapidly, the distinction between real and imagined situations becomes disturbingly vague.
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80Refreshingly uncategorizable: It’s somewhere between a marital-discord drama and a mystery thriller, but it also has its madcap moments.
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60Director Alan Rudolph, whose reputation rests on ensemble pieces, lets Scott's performance -- as skilled as his pyrotechnical turn in "Roger Dodger" (2002), but composed entirely of subtle notes -- anchor the film.
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Positive: 4 out of 6
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Negative: 2 out of 6
