| Critics Reviews |
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| NZone |
"...lacks the narrative drive or thematic undercurrent to make it an exceptional film." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"It is a sensual pleasure to hear, and to watch the film on screen; it is an intellectual pleasure to mull the complex themes afterwards. This is filmmaking of the highest order." more... |
| Hollywood.com |
"A masterful tale..." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
"...truncated and rushed." more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"... there's something satisfying in seeing a filmmaker bold enough to fall just short of what would be expected of a 'quality film.'" more... |
| Orlando Weekly: A Strad state of affairs |
(3 out of 5 stars) "...as ambitious and grandiose as the genre demands, but sorely lacking in storytelling magic." more... |
| Savoy |
"...basically a B-level movie, most because it doesn’t know where its heart is." more... |
| Spliced: Orchestral Magnificence in the Dark |
(4 stars) "Like a blending of great symphony and great cinema, 'The Red Violin' is a magnum opus of musical-visual composition..." more... |
| Variety |
"Unfortunately, the episodic pic...fails on a number of counts, mostly because the individual stories aren’t very gripping." more... |
| Village Voice: A Life on Strings |
"...about as watchable as a massively flawed, woolly-headed two-hour-plus movie gets..." more... |
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