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Movie critics combined give Tetro (2009) a score of 2.4815 out of 4
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Tetro (2009) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for The New York TimesThe New York Times
Tetro is a visually lush cinematic fugue about love, ambivalence and two brothers fleeing the dark shadow of their domineering father. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at The New York Times
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
The Coppola who was master of the 1970s ... is back, and that should make every cinephile weep with joy ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.60 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Manohla Dargis)New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Combustible CelluloidCombustible Celluloid
Yet I like Tetro a great deal, which is more than I can say for Youth Without Youth, which I admired without really liking. I'd watch it again, and I think there will be more to see on a second viewing. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Combustible Celluloid
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Slant MagazineSlant Magazine
By the end the film, the plotting has achieved an impressive, if slightly overcooked, degree of complexity. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Slant Magazine
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice Magazine
At his heart, Coppola has written an old-fashioned family gothic. The secrets at the center pack a near-primitive power, even though they're as foreshadowed as the family's continual way of throwing themselves into oncoming traffic. Surprises are few. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter
Returning to his origins as a theater and film student, Francis Ford Coppola deploys striking visuals, music, dance and classic drama to spin a tale of familial conflicts and brothers reunited. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at The Hollywood Reporter
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for CinematicalCinematical
The director's triumphant return to form. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Cinematical
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The movie is alive from beginning to end, and it's a pleasure to see at least one big-name director get out of the prison of his own reputation. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. ClubThe Onion A.V. Club
It's the product of a great dreamer and aesthete, rather than an authentic emotional experience -- a gorgeous, crystalline bauble that really catches the light. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.comEmanuelLevy.com
Coppola's first original script in decades, Tetro is a dense, self-reflexive meditation about life and art, a spectacle that uses the melodrama genre to comment on family, narrative, and magic while paying tribute to Kazan, Fellini and even Almodovar. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at EmanuelLevy.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
For beauty, vision and the palpable sense of a veteran filmmaker still reveling in possibility, it's something to see. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York ObserverNew York Observer
Despite all its longueurs and extreme aggravations, Tetro deserves to be seen as the late work of one of the cinema's most accomplished masters of mise-en-scène. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at New York Observer
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Hollywood & FineHollywood & Fine
In the end, this is his film, the way he wanted to make it - a world that could only exist in cinema, burning with feelings, for better or worse. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Hollywood & Fine
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for SpoutBlogSpoutBlog
...as [a] densely layered, intensely visual work of creative autobiography, Tetro claims a key place in the Coppola filmography. At least, for the first time in the last few decades worth of filmography, it feels like it's got somewhere to take you. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at SpoutBlog
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Visually inventive, narratively edgy, and unlike anything else. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Total FilmTotal Film
Forcefully acted and sumptuously shot in gleaming black and white, it is an artistic picture that occasionally - nay, frequently - strains too hard for credibility, as Coppola's script shoots for nothing less than tragedy. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Total Film
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film School RejectsFilm School Rejects
The best complement to be paid Tetro is that it feels like the work of a first time filmmaker, coming from a living legend reborn. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Film School Rejects
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.90 out of 4 stars for EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Metromix.com (Matt Pais)Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times
In "Tetro," nearly every time Coppola should have clung to intimacy, he opts for excess. Especially tedious are the meta excerpts from staged productions -- overcompensation trying to masquerade as illumination. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Los Angeles Times
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for NYC Movie GuruNYC Movie Guru
Visually arresting and intelligently crafted for the most part, but its slightly uneven tone diminishes its overall power to captivate and engross you thoroughly. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at NYC Movie Guru
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.60 out of 4 stars for Oregonian (Shawn Levy)Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.60 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
There's still much to admire in the visual craft and offbeat cultural sampling Coppola heroically brings to a homogenized cinema, but Tetro rides off the rails. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for This is LondonThis is London
Tetro is huge in its ambition, frequently operatic in its style and, on balance, impressive in its achievement. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at This is London
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Hollywood.comHollywood.com
Coppola's directorial skills are still vibrant n this fascinating,if uneven look at two brothers at the crossroads of their relationship. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Hollywood.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Time Out New YorkTime Out New York
Much like Tetro and Bennie in the film's final scene, Coppola has been swallowed whole by darkness and yet attained a necessary clarity that may otherwise have evaded him. It could be said, strangely enough, that the abyss was never so enlightening. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Time Out New York
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Salon.comSalon.com
"Tetro" is a cousin to "One From the Heart," the doomed, gorgeous Vegas fantasy that torpedoed Coppola's career the first time around. To paraphrase another great American artist with an up-and-down career, he was so much older then. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Salon.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.25 out of 4 stars for MovieMartyr.comMovieMartyr.com
Coppola's movie, like Tetro himself, is something that must be taken on its own terms, for better or worse. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at MovieMartyr.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York PostNew York Post
Tetro, the second in Coppola's new line of low-budget art films (following last year's headache factory Youth Without Youth), is hard to take seriously. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at New York Post
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for ColeSmithey.comColeSmithey.com
Stylistically, "Tetro" has its strengths, but it fails to connect with an emotional core before its overwrought third act comes crashing down. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at ColeSmithey.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for TIME.comTIME.com
At the film's world premiere in Cannes last month, Coppola said of the similarities between life and script, "Nothing like this happened, and everything is true." Alas, in Tetro he has made a movie in which plenty happens but nothing rings true. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at TIME.com
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
...read the complete Tetro movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.80 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Coppola has made some of the greatest films ever made in traditional narrative mode, but whenever he goes into his indie-outsider dance, he stumbles badly. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for MTV ReviewsMTV Reviews
Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" is such a beautiful movie to look at that you wish it had a less-overwrought story. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at MTV Reviews
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for New York Daily NewsNew York Daily News
Despite the overwrought plot and unabashed pretension, there's something admirable about the fact that Coppola clearly made this movie for himself. But he shouldn't be surprised if few others join him in watching it. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at New York Daily News
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for ScotsmanScotsman
The film's visual beauty is not enough to compensate for its somewhat static feel, though, or the unbelievability of several of the characters. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Scotsman
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Onion A.V. Club Onion A.V. Club
Youth Without Youth may have been messier and more risible (though the climactic twist here is pretty damn dumb), but I'll take its dazzingly surreal middle third over this film's endless declamatory hooey. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Onion A.V. Club
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for New York PressNew York Press
Clearly, Coppola needs to re-read O'Neill and stop trying to be Soderbergh. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at New York Press
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for VarietyVariety
The angst-ridden treatment of Oedipal issues makes the picture play out like a passably talented imitation of O'Neill, Williams, Miller and Inge, and thus it feels like the pale product of an over-tilled field. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Variety
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Screen DailyScreen Daily
Mihai Malaimare's moody black and white photography, an atmospheric score by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov and long time Coppola collaborator Walter Murch's editing and sound work help to lift a story that seems at times almost a parody of the dark ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Screen Daily
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine
It's not a catastrophe, but neither is it a classic, and a big problem is Coppola's self-penned script, an Oedipal drama that may as well be subtitled An Oedipal Drama, because subtlety is not its strongest suit. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Empire Magazine
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Little White LiesLittle White Lies
Coppola's self-involved family drama Tetro feels like an attempt by the filmmaker to recapture his youthful for appetite for moviemaking and art. Which makes Tetro sound a lot better than it is. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Little White Lies
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Indie WireIndie Wire
Neither complete misfire nor triumphant return to form, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" works as a competent family drama right up until the messy final act. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Indie Wire
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 0.80 out of 4 stars for One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
...read the complete Tetro movie review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Tetro (2009) scores a combined 0.75 out of 4 stars for Associated PressAssociated Press
The heavy symbolism of binding family ties becomes too much to bear. ...read the complete Tetro movie review at Associated Press

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Tetro (2009) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Tetro (2009) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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