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Manglehorn

Manglehorn

2015
Drama
1h 37m
A Texas-set story of a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life. (imdb)
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Manglehorn

2015
Drama
1h 37m
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Rated 18 Apr 2015
60
50th
Pacino is on form, and the seeds for a compelling, almost existential character portrait meets father-son drama are there. But every now and then something's off, and the film ultimately fails to live up to it's own potential.
Rated 04 Jul 2015
70
30th
An old asshole is an asshole to everybody for 88 minutes and realizes in the last 2 minutes, that he was an asshole. So, we have to forgive him his assholeness. Just for fun: Imagine such a storyline with a female-lead. In other news: Everyone will - of course - talk about Pacino. But Chris Messina is the real blessing to watch in this movie!
Rated 20 Sep 2015
60
48th
Pacino is superb as a lonely old locksmith etching out a marginal existence while pining over lost love from his youth. Time has not diminished his skill, but the film suffers from contemporary U.S indie syndrome: it's too slight to be truly affecting. There are some lovely moments here, despite the on-the-nose symbolism, that when combined with Pacino's wonderfully restrained performance hint at what might have been. Pacino fans should lap it up: he hasn't been this good since Insomnia.
Rated 07 Sep 2014
4
51st
[TIFF EXPERIENCE] The magical realism is off-putting to me, and some of the improvised dialogue and subplots don't quite work, but it's on the whole still an above-average slice-of-life drama with some decent performances. As an aside, I saw Pacino during a Q&A session and he was rambling like a cocaine-addict and finishing every answer off with "I'm done with that question". Hilarious.
Rated 27 Jun 2015
66
73rd
Perhaps I'm reading into it too much, but I found this film a funny and interesting existential character study. The use of various weird montage sequences cames close to pretentious, but I found them fun. Main character is beautifully acted by Al Pacino. David Gordon Green has a knack for putting famous older actors into natural roles (see Joe for Nic Cage). Good to see this director recovered after that stint of silly stoner comedies.
Rated 14 Sep 2015
50
30th
No doubt about it : Pacino is an exquisite actor. I don't need this movie to prove that. My opinion here : http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/2015/09/manglehorn-2014.html
Rated 21 Sep 2015
40
26th
A locksmith who's locked himself away learns to unmangle his horn, and to reject options A (himself, Angelo, on a boat), B (Beatrice, the ex he never loved) and C (Clara, the failed love) in favour of D (Dawn, of a new day). Some scenes are quite good, but ultimately all the elements are too familiar and every narrative decision by the book. Cat scenes suggest a kind of homage to the low-key loneliness of THE LONG GOODBYE, but here there is very little of Altman's rebellion against convention.
Rated 18 Apr 2015
70
77th
A very David Gordon Green-y film -- and that's not a bad thing. Al Pacino is great, Harmony Korine is on another planet, and the magical realism of the film is ... a little odd, but hey, it's all good.
Rated 04 Oct 2015
30
18th
An entirely underwhelming film experience. I would have liked to see some of the magic that is talked about, but instead you get an old guy with regrets who has difficulty living in the here & now. Not nearly interesting enough. The story just plods along revealing mostly ordinary scenes & ending much as it began on a meandering walk alongside an old guy slowly moving past his regrets and into a new life. Not nearly as poetic or entertaining as they were going for.
Rated 07 Aug 2017
46
29th
Watch it for Pacino (and Harmony Korine). The rest is pretty bad.
Rated 18 Nov 2020
56
21st
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