Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) by Peter Debruge for Variety — 18 Dec 2011
With its re-enactments of that fateful day, Extremely Loud plays a bit too much like one of those perfectly lit, heart-tugging segments TV networks air during the Olympics. It hardly matters that Horn manages to give such a naturalistic, unmannered performance as the young Oskar when everything around him has been so deliberately orchestrated to provoke a specific reaction.
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This review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) was written by Peter Debruge and published by Variety on 18 Dec 2011.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has generally received mixed reviews.
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