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Myth of Fingerprints, The (1997) Rank 2 Reviews
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The Boston Phoenix
The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Has some good performances (Ms. Moore's ongoing snit is a terrifically sustained bit of glowering), but it only barely begins to knit its self-pitying characters into a credible family unit. They are oddballs with attitude. ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
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LA Weekly (Paul Malcolm)
An overly mannered film drowning in the symptoms of dysfunction but unable to tap the root causes of this WASPish clan's pain except in the most oblique and cursory ways. This might be Freundlich's point, considering this family deals with its problems ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at LA Weekly (Paul Malcolm)
Entertainment Weekly (Denise Lanctot)
The first-rate cast is wasted serving up this melodramatic turkey. ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Denise Lanctot)
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
When all is fretted and done, there's little dramatic payoff in this moody first feature by Bart Freundlich. But cinematographer Stephen Kazmierski's images are appealing, and the mood is on target -- Thanksgiving as hell. ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
eye WEEKLY (Gemma Files)
As lawyer-to-be Matt Damon so aptly points out, near the start of Francis Ford Coppola's John Grisham's The Rainmaker (say that five times fast), the main difference between a member of his chosen profession and a hooker is that the hooker will at least ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at eye WEEKLY (Gemma Files)
Ted Prigge
The story concerns itself with a New England family coming together for Thanksgiving, and spending a couple of days at the big house with the parents, and sadly, every child is either a cliche or a stereotype (or sometimes neither, and not even a person). ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at Ted Prigge
Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
The film has a kind of echo-filled emptiness to it that some will take as profundity and others as mere emptiness. ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
Jerry Saravia
Bart Freundlich's "The Myth of Fingerprints" left me angry and confused. Sometimes, great movies accomplish those goals with a purpose. "Myth of Fingerprints" is a frustratingly thin dysfunctional family drama where each character is merely introduced ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at Jerry Saravia
Salon (Charles Taylor)
The Myth of Fingerprints is only 90 minutes long, but watching all this tasteful torment, you can't help thinking that if you were watching a Jewish family or an Italian one, the air would be cleared -- and you'd be out of the theater -- a hell of a lot ...read the complete Myth of Fingerprints movie review at Salon (Charles Taylor)
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