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By Dan D (1,306) on 20 Aug 2007

What a cast, what a directer, what a film,…

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By Ben S (1,411) on 15 Aug 2007

Very odd piece of work that managed to engage me completely with it's strange menagerie of off the wall characters and desolate setting…

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By Oliver K (208) on 24 Jul 2007

Bizarre! The images have a strange effect on you that make them difficult to forget…

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By Alan H (304) on 21 Jul 2007

Polanski's birth captured on film. If anyone hates women and needs some justification, watch this. Otherwise it's just baddass…

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By Jeremiah L (151) on 27 Jun 2007

Bored bourgeois dilettante and his bored faux-bohemian wife live out their empty, aristocratic dreams in an isolated castle full of chickens…

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By Per P (41) on 12 Jun 2007

Strangely modern in its bizarre story and execution, this is a fascinating movie to watch…

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By Christopher R (545) on 12 Jun 2007

Strangely modern in its bizarre story and execution, this is a fascinating movie to watch…

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By Dan G (1,214) on 05 Jun 2007

EXTREME DEATH MATCH: Donald Pleasence vs. Lionel Stander…

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By Alister N (242) on 05 Jun 2007

An intriguing set up and style to begin with, but as Polanski's penchant for the absurd and surreal take over it becomes more a baffling relic…

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By Thomas E (234) on 02 Jun 2007

Absurdist study of isolation, house arrest and a tired relationship. Or something. It's great anyway…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

If the subject matter is bleak and bitterly serious, the tone throughout is darkly comic, while the precise imagery effortlessly conveys the…

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By Joseph Jon Lanthier (108) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Jun 2005

Cul-de-Sac remains a searing reminder that Roman Polanski’s idiosyncratic grasp of the human mind was once evinced theatrically, rather than…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for New York Times (5,786) on 08 May 2005

Is Mr. Polanski endeavoring to tell us anything about life or crime or perversion in this complex and terminally morbid joke…

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By Cj C (605) on 02 Feb 2005

Director: Roman Polanski Staring: Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Lionel Stander 4 stars out of 4 Polanski has been one of my favorite…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Oct 2004

Pleasence, in a role that requires him to run sideways most of the time with his head at a crooked angle, is hilarious and frightening as a…

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By Jason Anderson (395) for eye WEEKLY (415) on 08 Apr 2004

The troubled dynamic of a castle-bound couple is further distorted by the arrival of a gangster who is marginally less vile than Carol's phantom…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 21 Jan 2004

At once bitterly funny and deeply disturbing…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 05 Sep 2003

Roman Polanski's second British film is a mean little absurdist comedy set on a remote Northumberland island; it's also one of the best and…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 06 Apr 2001

A flawed film to be sure, but one with flashes of inspiration, occasionally stunning visuals and a Shakespearean sense of claustrophobia…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Aug 1985

Cul-de-sac functions better as an affectionate goof on Waiting For Godot, enhanced by an unforgettable setting that naturally severs the trio…

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