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The visitor is excellent
What an amazing movie. No hype at all, though, sad because the characters are so well developed and well acted. I loved this movie. No tidy ending either, but that's life...I liked that about it.
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What a gem of a film!
One of the best films I've seen all year. I can't believe it's not getting more positive press. Go see it now. Funny and touching at the same time.
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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The Visitor
An important film with an important message, and very well acted. The pace is deliberately slow in parts which fits perfectly with the mood of the subject matter. Topical and informative.
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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Among the Best
This film strikes deep. It shows the new world of people displaced across the globe, sometimes willingly, sometimes not, and how contingent their lives become. It also shows how people can reach out to each other across boundaries of language, race, religion, nationality and form spontaneous alliances against the various soulless organizations that govern them. And, alas, it shows how those organizations see people only in terms of categories, dehumanizing and punishing them almost at random.
And it shows how even late in life, when someone has crossed into an arid desert of being, he can be revivified by music, love, and commitment.
Finally, almost incidentally, it struck me with a profound sense of shame and sorrow about my country's government and about the power over people we have given to organizations who don't deserve it and can't manage it.
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The Visitor
What a great movie. Wanted it to keep going as I had gotten into the characters a lot. Very true to what happens but it was a sweet film too. shows you don't need name actors to have a great film. Wish the name of the CD they played had been said more than once as it was good.
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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Excellent
Exceptional acting and directing without a boring moment.
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"The Visitor" -- Be Sure You Visit!
Thoughtful and thought-provoking with clean, crisp dialogue rendered in "real world" real voices by a quartet of engaging actors. "The Visitor" feels far more real than any TV reality show has or can. Its pace mirrors the pace of event protrayed; and the realizations the audience experiences arise as naturally as the self-imposed barriers to life and fantasies about it of the characters dissolve. Go, being prepared to think and feel and come away with questions about much that is daily life in post-9/11 America; but, go...
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