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  • 2019
  • R
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), a Hasidic cantor, distraught by his wife’s untimely death, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a community college biology professor, the two embark on an increasingly literal undertaking.

Directed By: Shawn Snyder

Written By: Jason Begue

  • 2019
  • R
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2019
  • R
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 45 m

To Dust

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), a Hasidic cantor, distraught by his wife’s untimely death, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a community college biology professor, the two embark on an increasingly literal undertaking.

Directed By: Shawn Snyder

Written By: Jason Begue

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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81% Positive
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83
Mar 13, 2019
An odd, sweet, dryly funny, existential and slightly blasphemous buddy-movie, in which an Orthodox cantor, grieving his wife’s death, seeks the help of a pot-smoking college professor to understand what becomes of a corpse.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
78
Feb 27, 2019
The real delight here, however, is Broderick’s mensch, a middle-aged man painfully aware that he’s become a loser.
By Steve Davis FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 8, 2019
Religion can provide some solace, but it can also complicate matters. Science can explain the natural processes, but even then, it cannot account for every detail in every situation. To Dust is about those contradictions and, in the end, about the ultimate one: that, to some questions, the only logical and spiritual answer is that there isn't one — except whatever we make of it.
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70
Feb 14, 2019
The movie could use a little more energy — this is Paul Mazursky territory, after all, not Andrei Tarkovsky — but in its sick-but-sweet attempt to reclaim grief from the trappings of tradition, To Dust is its own well-measured godsend.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 5, 2019
With matter-of-fact Jewish wit, it accepts these beliefs as the story's ground rules, understanding that Shmuel won't make peace with his wife's death until he finds some way of reconciling his ideas with physical realities. If only all conflicts between religion and observable facts came to ends as satisfying as this film does.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 8, 2019
The mournful comedy To Dust has a sicko premise, but scrupulously sicko.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 7, 2019
To Dust has several things to recommend it. It’s decidedly different, and that is no small accomplishment in this day and age. Snyder’s direction has real assurance, though not enough to overcome the films self-conscious — maybe self-congratulatory — weirdness.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company King Bee Productions, Salem Street Entertainment, UnLTD Productions, BRON Studios, Stoneboies Entertainment, Storyland Pictures, Wing and a Prayer Pictures
Release Date Feb 8, 2019
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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Website http://gooddeedentertainment.com/todust/
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Awards

Moscow Jewish Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Nomination

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