AKA

Name: AKA
Genre: Drama
Released: December 12, 2003
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 64

2003

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Empire Pictures Inc. | Release Date: December 12, 2003 | R

Summary: The story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain.

Director: Duncan Roy

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 123 min

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100

Kevin Thomas

Among the most sophisticated, fully realized and satisfying films of the year. Read full review

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Jonathan Curiel

An unforgettable film. Read full review

Ella Taylor

So never mind the Xmas schlock -- go treat yourself at once to this sensationally entertaining soul food. Read full review

Dave Kehr

His (Roy's) informed contempt is highly entertaining, but he neglects some of the more problematical and perhaps more illuminating aspects of his story. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Always watchable yet ultimately self-defeating in terms of its tonal/aesthetic choices. Read full review

Dennis Lim

Cumulatively, the echo-chamber syntax achieves a kind of atonal harmony, meshing with the themes of reinvention and self-presentation: The disjunction between the panels is tantamount to the gap between image and reality. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Divided into a triptych of images sprawled across a Cinemascope frame, AKA rarely uses the extra screens for information that couldn't be conveyed well enough in one. Read full review

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