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100Brilliant and heartbreaking, takes place in the present but is timeless.
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100A masterfully varied set of images, paces and moods.
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89Sellbinding, distressing, and possessed of a dark and terrible beauty.
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88Showing as much courage and talent behind the camera as he has while acting in front of it, Roth has crafted for his first film one of the most bluntly graphic and disturbing movies ever done on the subject.
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88In all respects, from choice of material to fullness of execution on every level, The War Zone is an extraordinary piece of work.
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80Actor Tim Roth's austere directing debut is one of the most difficult, emotionally wrenching experiences you're likely to have in a movie theater any time soon.
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75Grim, tight and well acted.
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75One of the most impressive actor-to-filmmaker transitions in recent years.
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75Roth, there's no denying, creates considerable suspense out of our desire to confront the forbidden.
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75Sticks in the mind and simply won't go away.
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70We may not want another film about incest, but there's a necessity about this one that won't be denied.
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70A bleak, beautiful film.
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68A brooding, stunningly realistic portrait of familial self-destruction that raises far more questions than it can possibly answer.
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63A relentlessly grim, rather heavy-handed drama of family dysfunction.
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63Roth, though, is like a sociopathic arsonist, one enthralled with his ability to start little blazes and one who would even call the fire department, but wouldn't stick around to see whether anyone put them out.
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The actor Tim Roth makes a fierce, disturbing directorial debut with a film that treats incest as something worse than a terrible secret.
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50Roth can obviously direct actors sympathetically, and he paces the movie adroitly.
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50Its grimness is so unrelenting that I can only recommend it to filmgoers who need a movie to tell them that incest is bad.
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Much of its strength resides in the way it eschews narrative contrivance. The movie observes behavior without explaining or judging it.
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40Wrought with pretension -- and a blind eye to its own exploitation.
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40The ultimately uncomplicated view of sexual and emotional violence in a family is only tragic, not insightful.
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