Limbo (1999)
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72% of critics liked it
(39 reviews) -
75% of users liked it
(312 ratings)
Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
- Rating, Runtime
- R, 2 hr. 6 min.
- Directed By
- John Sayles
- Written By
- John Sayles
- Genres
- Drama
- In Theaters
- Jun 4, 1999 Wide
- On DVD
- Nov 23, 1999
- Studio
- Sony
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Sharply uneven, John Sayles' 12th film features many of his thematic motifs but the ambiguous ending is problematic.
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Leo Goldsmith, Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Like so much of his work, Limbo feels like two films - one agitprop, the other melodrama - but these two strains are unified in the film's title and (as always) setting.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Proximate politics replaced by archetype and what Wordsworth would have called "the story of place."
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