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By Beth Accomando (509) for KPBS.org (509) on 30 May 2009

Egoyan is always in complete control of the material, letting us know details only when he chooses to reveal them and only when it serves the…

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By Pam C (46) on 30 May 2009

Cinematic hubris plagues this auteur's fizzly, characterless wack-fest…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 28 May 2009

When all is revealed at the end, it becomes obvious Egoyan has cheated audiences with a batch of fake clues and false paths…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 28 May 2009

When all is revealed at the end, it becomes obvious Egoyan has cheated audiences with a batch of fake clues and false paths…

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By J.a. G (2) on 25 May 2009

I thought this was a wonderful film. I really enjoyed it. It did a great job exploring some really complex issues…

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By Bruce J (64) on 24 May 2009

Very interesting movie…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for Movie Retriever (197) on 21 May 2009

I'm always going to be something of an apologist for a filmmaker like Egoyan, someone so true to his characters and his concepts that he sometimes…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 May 2009

Because of the allegorical nature of its people, Adoration never fully brings them to life - especially, and most crucially, Simon and Sabine…

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By Robert Levin (797) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 15 May 2009

Takes a powerful, simple subject and mucks up its exploration with elaborate stylistic complications and moments of pure over direction…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 May 2009

Adoration, despite a family resemblance to some of his finest work (The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat), is Egoyan at his worst…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 14 May 2009

Writer and director Atom Egoyan is a cinematic master at creating incredibly sad and affecting tone poems to life's morose moments…

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By Bryan T (261) on 14 May 2009

I think I was too tired to be watching this film. There was an underlying deep message, but I couldn't hear it, instead I was just annoyed…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 13 May 2009

This is one of those films that isn't nearly as interesting as the conversations that it may inspire…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 May 2009

At a minimum, his new film, Adoration, marks a welcome return to the Egoyan of old, the one who could spin seductive mysteries out of disassembled…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 May 2009

the epitome of an Atom Egoyan movie, with its themes of technological influences on human communication and finding the truth amidst family…

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By Jimmy C (376) on 11 May 2009

Poussé par de super bonne intentions, le film finit à travers le montage qui fait la force d'Egoyan par, à travers ce suspense qui cummule…

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By Pipit C (5) on 09 May 2009

An interesting story made more interesting by the way it is told and even debated within the movie itself…

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By Guillaume M (31) on 09 May 2009

Wow... I really like the parts where they debate stuff. In the end, if there was no religions anywhere, so many problems would be resolves…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 08 May 2009

After arty flashbacks and brouhaha around larger social issues, slowly, quietly comes down to one family touchingly healing…

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By Adam C (1,312) on 08 May 2009

Incredibly heavy-handed meditation on terrorism and tolerance. Far less mystery then I expected…

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