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Trial, The (1993) Rank 5 Reviews
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the essential writers in 20th Century literature. Enormously influential, Kafka pinpointed the existential crisis of the man trapped inside a metaphorical labyrinth, of a person searching for meaning in a world ...read the complete Trial movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Movie Vault (Vadim Rizov)
Boston Phoenix (Peter Keough)
CineScene (Howard Schumann)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Hitchcock said that most of his films were really about the same thing, the Innocent Man Wrongly Accused. ...read the complete Trial movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
IMDB.com
The clerk is arrogant and tells everyone how ridiculous this all is. But in a world of nonEuclidean geometry, everything that seems right isn't. Slowly the clerk begins to realizes the trouble he is in. When he goes to the court he sees long lines of ...read the complete Trial movie review at IMDB.com
Reel.com DVD review (Marc Fortier)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Fundamentally, The Trial is unsatisfying. High production values and good acting aren't
everything. The film lacks energy, and comes across as a pedantic, obtuse, two-hour nightmare.
Since the intentions of this film (and the novel ...read the complete Trial movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Released by Angelika Films It goes without saying that no one walks into a film adaptation of a Kafka novel expecting something created for general consumption. The Trial, however, takes this a step further, as significant portions of the narrative are i ...read the complete Trial movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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