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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe chaotic, brutal iconography of Italian Westerns is put to novel use in this time-traveling, self-referential, hugely ambitious story of American brothers.
- 60VarietyDavid StrattonVarietyDavid StrattonIt's too arty to cut it as a violent action pic and too gore-spattered to appeal to the arthouse crowd.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIts most impressive aspect is its visual style, patterned to some degree on Sergio Leone westerns. A picture this long and dense should work harder to be cogent and coherent, though.
- 50The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA potent, assured and ambitious piece of filmmaking brought down by weighted dialogue and, playing Americans, the British actors Adrian Lester and Joseph Fiennes and the Australian David Wenham.
- 50Village VoiceLeslie CamhiVillage VoiceLeslie CamhiManchevski has a rare visual intelligence, whether filming the face of a dying woman or Times Square's reflection in a windshield. But in reaching for a cubist style of storytelling, he sacrifices character and motivation.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThree movies in one: a spaghetti Western, an urban drama and a historical epic. All of them suffer from self-indulgent direction, a convoluted script and awkward acting.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasDust is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok.
- 30L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertL.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertWhatever ghost-story intrigue the film musters gives way to a tedious cycle of fighting, screwing, shouting and storytelling stuck together by two hours worth of hard-boiled dialogue gone gummy.
- 25New York PostMegan LehmannNew York PostMegan LehmannLurches so wildly and meaninglessly between genres and time frames that all it creates is motion sickness.