Blue Caprice
Sundance Selects | Release Date: September 13, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanSep 12, 2013
Director Alexandre Moors turns the project into something of an art film, requiring patience for repetitive editing and slow-burn scenes before the movie ultimately works itself under your skin. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfSep 10, 2013
Blue Caprice is probably what more post-9/11 cinema should have been: desperate for explanations, inchoate and wrapped in unspoken loneliness. Even though we can stomach it better a decade later, we’re still not healed. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSep 19, 2013
Blue Caprice tells its story in fragments, a provocative strategy that sometimes works to chilling effect, sometimes not. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 15, 2013
The movie substitutes milky, washed-out color and funereal music for insight. The murders are purposely un-fluid: When you see Mohammad or Malvo take a shot, you don’t see the impact of the bullet. When you see the victim struck, you don’t see the shooter. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensSep 12, 2013
For all its tasteful spareness and eerie, diaphanous mood, Blue Caprice feels, in the end, insubstantial. It’s a true-crime story that illustrates little about the crime in question and a character study whose characters, even when haunting, remain stubbornly opaque. Read full review
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