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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary Paul Harris works at research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with Danielle, an attractive co-worker, Paul becomes infatuated, but when Danielle takes interest in a new researcher, his suppressed resentments and perverse delusions become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a...

Directed By: Alex Karpovsky

Written By: Garth Donovan, Alex Karpovsky

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 23 m

Rubberneck

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Paul Harris works at research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with Danielle, an attractive co-worker, Paul becomes infatuated, but when Danielle takes interest in a new researcher, his suppressed resentments and perverse delusions become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a...

Directed By: Alex Karpovsky

Written By: Garth Donovan, Alex Karpovsky

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews

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83
Feb 19, 2013
Rubberneck has more in common with the growing Karpovsky oeuvre than it may appear -- and even inadvertently critiques it.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 19, 2013
A character-driven take on true-crime fare, Alex Karpovsky's Rubberneck marks a solid dramatic turn for a filmmaker best known for playing comedic parts in indie films like "Tiny Furniture."
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 22, 2013
Rubberneck immediately put me in mind of the classic slow burn of vintage thrillers like Fritz Lang’s “M” and Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom,” although Karpovsky and co-writer Garth Donovan have cited all kinds of other things, from “Michael Clayton” to “Caché” to “Fatal Attraction.”
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 19, 2013
A too-pat ending also spoils Rubberneck (shorter: Mommy made me do it!), though it doesn’t ruin the steely pleasures of the filmmaking.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 22, 2013
Rubberneck is a thriller too drab and self-obsessed to ever be truly thrilling.
By Drew Taylor FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 21, 2013
The film works better as an uncomfortable character drama than as a murky family mystery, which Karpovsky deepens with some psychobabble. Still, a nicely sinister and shuddersome effort.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 21, 2013
It’s dragged down by non-scene after non-scene, and filmmaking choices that don’t earn their keep.
By Rachel Saltz FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Blameless Twins
Release Date Feb 22, 2013
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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