Max

Name: Max
Genre: Drama, War
Released: December 27, 2002
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 56
Cast: John Cusack, Leelee Sobieski, Noah Taylor

2002

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Lions Gate Films | Release Date: December 27, 2002 | R

Starring: John Cusack, Leelee Sobieski, Noah Taylor

Summary: A tale that careens through art, politics, love, hope, intolerance, obsession and destructive malevolence to provide an original and intimate portrait of a major turning point in modern history. (Lions Gate Films)

Director: Menno Meyjes

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 106 min

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David Sterritt

Reveals a key aspect of fascism's cynical use of art and architecture to mesmerize a weak and vulnerable society. Read full review

Shawn Levy

In many ways, a smashing success. It's built not only on a casually clever script but on two expertly balanced performances. Read full review

Michael Sragow

The result is suitably upsetting and intriguing, despite a simultaneously tacky and too-neat climax. Read full review

Mike Clark

The movie keeps you mildly interested all the way up to an elaborately staged final scene, yet it might give viewers the same queasy fooling-with-the-Holocaust feeling some felt for Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful." Read full review

William Arnold

No doubt about it, the movie is morbidly fascinating. Moreover, Cusack gives a delicate and agreeably world-weary performance. Read full review

Rick Groen

The whole film occupies pretty much the same continuuum -- glimmers of intelligence followed by moments of outright hysteria punctuated by bouts of sheer haplessness. Read full review

Peter Travers

"You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler." Few serious films could survive a line like that. Max certainly doesn't. Read full review

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Mar 15, 2015

A fascinating and tragic what-if as a jaded art dealer discovers a troubled and extreme artist and attempts to steer him away from the path of destruction and towards the fulfillment of his artistic dreams. The art dealer is Jewish, the artist a young Adolf Hitler. One of Cusack's lastA fascinating and tragic what-if as a jaded art dealer discovers a troubled and extreme artist and attempts to steer him away from the path of destruction and towards the fulfillment of his artistic dreams. The art dealer is Jewish, the artist a young Adolf Hitler. One of Cusack's last interesting films and performances before he started reading the cheques rather than the scripts.… Expand

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