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By Andrew Welch (2) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 05 Feb 2015

An observant and skillfully crafted film about corruption in modern-day Russia…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Feb 2015

A sense of dread hovers over all these characters, and, by extension, the audience. It's in the air of the place, like oxygen. And vodka…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 29 Jan 2015

It’s a cry of despair and soul-shaking desperation, leavened with shades of Dostoyevskyan angst…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Jan 2015

Magnificently acted, expertly crafted and unerringly sure of every treacherous step it takes, Leviathan is an indictment, but also an elegy,…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 28 Jan 2015

The film you expect it to be by the one-fifth mark is pretty much exactly the film it proves to be. But it's a stellar execution of that movie…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 Jan 2015

Zvyagintsev builds to a crescendo with the force of an ocean storm...Leviathan is a great, literary work of existential despair, as magnificent…

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By Genevieve Valentine (37) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 22 Jan 2015

It's early in the year, but I suspect it's still not a stretch to say that the geography in Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan are some of the…

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By Kristin Tillotson (85) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 22 Jan 2015

As harshly beautiful as the Barents Sea coastline where it is set, this parable inspired in part by the biblical tale of Job dumps more misfortune…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 22 Jan 2015

Call it what you like – a modern Russian epic, a crime drama, a black comedy or a scream in the dark – Leviathan is a shaggy masterpiece…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 21 Jan 2015

It's strong work that's not always satisfying, but its silent power registers as intended, creating a hypnotic atmosphere of unrest that fuels…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 13 Jan 2015

The politics are rarely overt…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Jan 2015

As in their previous feature, Elena, Zvyagintsev and cowriter Oleg Negin modulate their social critique with sharp, ironic humor…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 Jan 2015

Doesn't pull back the curtain on anything…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 08 Jan 2015

Leviathan, the fourth feature from Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev, may be the one true masterpiece of global cinema released in 2014…

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By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Jan 2015

The masterful script deals with telling words…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Jan 2015

It's a small story set in a memorably desolate location…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 07 Jan 2015

Zvyagintsev hardly bothers to disguise his momentous, taut allegory of world-weariness in contemporary Russia, nor his interest in ever larger,…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Jan 2015

One of the outstanding films of 2014, Leviathan lives up to its title: it's a behemoth of intelligent contemporary cinema…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 03 Jan 2015

Leviathan is, in the widest sense, a horror film…

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By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Jan 2015

As in the Coen brothers' great A Serious Man, the Book of Job looms large here — which is likely how director Andrey Zvyagintsev secured…

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