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By Michelle Orange (458) for Reeler (63) on 09 Feb 2007

It is frustrating to watch the film blow some respectable capital on indulgence in narrative frippery…

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By David Cornelius (645) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 04 Jan 2007

When Tauber finds his focus, The Architect is worth watching. But Tauber rarely finds his focus…

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By Jeff Giles (42) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 30 Dec 2006

It would bear mentioning that nothing winds up being resolved in the film, if it weren't for the fact that there's nothing to resolve…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for EURWeb (43) on 26 Dec 2006

What makes the movie satisfying is the fact that its ethnic tensions are never overtly exacerbated, but rather subtly illustrated simply by…

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By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 15 Dec 2006

Despite his obvious earnestness, first-time director and cowriter Matt Tauber is ill equipped to mine emotions this complex…

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By Michael Booth (186) for Denver Post (1,096) on 15 Dec 2006

Too many big moments are happening to too many people for the movie to feel plausible, and Tauber tries to tie many of those plots together…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 14 Dec 2006

Occasionally a pallid film is salvaged by one wonderful performance…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 Dec 2006

The Architect wears its heavy social consciousness like an albatross, and Tauber's plodding, earnest direction does little to wean the material…

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By Tom Keogh (466) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 08 Dec 2006

Painfully portentous and more solemn than Santa's funeral, The Architect gets this year's prize for the movie most likely to spoil holiday cheer…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Dec 2006

Despite an intriguing premise in which the architect of a housing project is confronted by a resident-turned-activist who wants his help in…

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By Andrew Wright (312) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 07 Dec 2006

Skids mightily in the transition from three to two dimensions…

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By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Dec 2006

For all the added scope and locations of the film medium, it still seems as stagy and claustrophobic as hell…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide (1,527) on 01 Dec 2006

LaPaglia and Davis deliver top-notch performances that go a long way toward offsetting the material's didacticism…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 01 Dec 2006

There are too many characters undergoing life changes in the story for each to be properly developed in an 82-minute movie…

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By Eric Lurio (584) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 30 Nov 2006

Families in crisis always make for good drama…

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By Richard Mowe (91) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 29 Nov 2006

An award-winning architect finds himself pitted against a resident who has to live in one of his deteriorating housing blocks in Chicago in…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 29 Nov 2006

It's a compact and symmetrical picture with all its plot points in the right places, but I never found it convincing in the slightest…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Nov 2006

In her (Viola Davis) umpteenth turn as a strong ghetto mother, she is the life force that lifts Matt Tauber's workaday movie The Architect…

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By Aaron Hillis (362) for Premiere Magazine (318) on 27 Nov 2006

A riveting urban drama that tackles a myriad of sociopolitical issues -- conflicts of race, sex, class, marriage and politics -- without spreading…

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