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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★

  HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★½ 4

  I think if Viggo Mortensen was in every movie ever made, the world would be a better place.

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★★ 6

  tom on the streets, joey in the sheets

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 11

  100

  David Cronenberg has frequently questioned the barriers of our physicality when confronted with the limitless potential of technology. How our bodies react when the unnatural is able to satisfy a certain itch beyond our current evolution. He's always been on a precipice of transformation, confronted with the ghosts in the machine, broken ceilings of self and sexuality and humanism. Understanding that a new world is just around the corner, and you're turned on by it but terrified at where the path might lead. So it's fitting that A History of Violence is akin to a primordial soup - the genesis of tendencies and outbursts that define our past and future. The beginning of the End. Cronenberg doesn't literally go…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 3

  Unforgiven for plaid shirt and jeans southwestern ontario farm dads. pretty broad material with regard to identity and violence but it has a freshly bruised, existential feeling to it, an open-wound stickiness and brutality and sexuality that only cronenberg could pack it with and the cast is aces. i think about this line-reading by william hurt like once a month at least.

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★ 3

  Canadian directs a simulation of American cinema

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★ 9

  Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
  Metacritic Metascore: 81
  IMDB: 7.4

  89/100

  Release Date: 30 September 2005
  Distributor: New Line Cinema
  Budget: $32M
  Worldwide Gross: $61.3M
  Total Film Awards: 37
  OSCAR Nominations: 2

  Richie Cusack: "Does it work for you? I can't see it working for me. I never got the urge, you know? A lot of great-looking women in the world. I never met one made me wanna give up all the others."

  SYNOPSIS: A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core in this action thriller.

  Cronenberg's adaptation of a Wagner and Locke graphic novel places a simple American family man, and his all-American family,…

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  Review by liam f ★★★½ 1

  can't believe that no one told me Mark Zuckerberg was in this film

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  Review by Adam Nayman ★★★★ 1

  So many angles of attack in this one: it’s simple; it’s sophisticated; it’s Spartan; it’s double-edged; it’s familiar; it’s startling; it’s goofy; it’s nightmarish. And it’s all held together by probably the richest pair of lead performances in any Cronenberg movie since THE FLY, a husband and wife with different yet finally convergent fetishes for role playing, Viggo hilarious as a man carefully measuring his every move until the jig is up and Maria Bello wringing consistently interesting variations on the idea of commitment. Great fun, including some slapstick gunplay that signals our hero’s awareness of the kind of movie his financiers wanted him to make, and which he has, but only in a fashion, and, as ever, on his own terms

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

  Ford updated to 21st century. History as series of self-deceptions as myth gets subdued into role playing. Cronenberg clear direction blows everything wide open. As the title, perhaps the most wry joke in a pretty funny movie, promises it is very surgical handled. It is a neowestern that like most post bicentennial western barely bothers to disguise that it isa mainstream art movie, but there's hardly a ponderous note and while Cronenberg finds an impressive double balance between delivering the goods (meaning blowing heads up) and implicating the audience (meaning keeping critics happy), it has an impressive propulsive quality. A self-annihilating journey that follows as impeccable as it inevitable towards a release. The blocking is so sharp, so direct and…

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★½ 23

  Oh, that's why it's called A History of Violence. Before today I thought the film is about violent events spanning over a period of time, you know, a history of violence? Violence's history? Nevermind, I'm dumb.

  The film? It's alright. Just like how they're selling it -- violent. Didn't know you can fuck up a person's face this bad with only your bare hands. Ed Harris is the boss. Aragorn is the boss's boss. (Everyone in the film seems to call him Tom. Yeah right, you're not fooling anyone. He's Aragorn.) Awesome performances throughout.

  I think I should mention that this is my first Cronenberg film and I understand this is his least interesting work. A toned down Cronenberg, yes,…

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  Review by BRÁT ★★★½ 6

  david cronenberg’s Les Mis. yeah i’ll say it