Review of The Truth About Emanuel (2013) by Greg S — 12 Jan 2014

Beautiful music, touching film, cinema considerable.

This review of The Truth About Emanuel (2013) was written by Greg S on 12 Jan 2014.

The Truth About Emanuel has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Jan 2014

What's missing, in the end, is any provocative or poignant insights into the truth about Emanuel; all we get are vague hints…

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By Raphael S (133) on 27 Mar 2015

This one keeped me interested till the end , a pitty the ending was a bit a disapointment…

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By Marischa B (652) on 19 Mar 2014

Weird movie about loss and grief and stuff…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 09 Jan 2014

For those with more interest in the mental decay of trauma and troubling defense mechanisms, Emanuel steps carefully and finds the occasional…

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Im gonna guess by the trailer that.....theres some lesbian underlying theme...and that the actress is yet another hot chick cast to make ugly…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 10 Jan 2014

A film so self-serious that it demands to be remade as a Seth MacFarlane farce, The Truth About Emanuel mixes the ludicrous and the pretentious…

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By Joshua L (2,111) on 30 Nov 2015

This movie is effectively weird with a strange creepiness to it. Its very well made…

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By Ben V (500) on 14 Sep 2014

I loved this movie. The acting was superb. And a very risky subject grief and loss…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 09 Jan 2014

The arsenal is empty, and there’s nowhere for The Truth About Emanuel to go except — unfortunately — downhill…

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By Nina Garin (49) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 10 Jan 2014

The Truth About Emanuel is trying so hard and has elements that are weirdly creepy, yet it still manages to be surprising and achingly sad…

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