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Frailty (2001) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Frailty (2001) a score of 2.8724 out of 4

based on (292) reviews

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Excellent

(55)

Very Good

(182)

Good

(46)

Fair

(6)

Poor

(3)

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JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")

Awesome! Every year, a couple of movies slip by general audiences, fly under the upcoming movies radar and don't get a lot of hype building up to their release, but when you sit down to watch them, with very few expectations, very little known about the...read the complete Frailty (2001) review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")

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Natural Born Viewers (James Chappell)

Religious zealots go wacky in the occult thriller "Frailty". Directed by first timer Bill Paxton, "Frailty" probes deeply into the mind of a confused father who only wants to be true to God. In the process, he violates the very...read the complete Frailty (2001) review at Natural Born Viewers (James Chappell)

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Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)

Starts out, and ends up, as a thriller trying valiantly to show us layers of moral depth. But in between that beginning and ending, Paxton's vision (as well as that of Brent Hanley, who wrote the script) becomes wavy and indistinct, a blurry muddle of...read the complete Frailty (2001) review at Salon (Stephanie Zacharek)

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Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)

The movie is so disturbing that it seems nearly blasphemous. I wouldn't wish it on an anthrax spore. After all, anthrax has feelings, too....read the complete Frailty (2001) review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)

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Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)

It's a small, unassuming movie grasping at whole-hog homo psychopathicus, with its feet planted squarely in Texan grave dirt and its head lost in the ether of Christian derangement....read the complete Frailty (2001) review at Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)

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