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3 Backyards Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    69

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    Smartly observed and precisely visualized, 3 Backyards is nonetheless a bore: We never care for any of the characters and their lives of "quiet desperation."

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Village Voice Nick Pinkerton

    Mendelsohn's first film since 1999's "Judy Berlin" is devoted to finding descriptive correlatives to liminal emotional states through the cast's eloquent reaction shots and the camera's depiction of homely environments - with ornate, flowing visual vocabulary.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Mr. Mendelsohn's ability to evoke a child's-eye view of a suburban environment is the most seductive element in a movie whose primary attraction is an atmosphere so heady that you can almost taste it.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety

    Helmer-writer Eric Mendelsohn returns with his first feature in a decade and the proposition that art film still has a place in the world -- which is an exhilarating idea, especially as represented by 3 Backyards, an exquisite example of calculated execution in pursuit of elusive ideas.

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2

Extremely boring.....slow by uleij
The melodramatic music and long clips of scenery made this movie unbearable. Very little dialogue, and when anyone did speak, nothing really made sense. Most characters, you want to learn more about and begin to care for them throughout a movie, however I was hoping a bomb would drop in the backyard. The movie was fragmented and at the end did not connect the pieces of this horrible movie at all. Big waste of time.

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