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Down in the Valley Review

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3.0

Dave White Profile

… Method-like and irritating. Read full review

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  • 4.0
    65

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    As long as Norton plays Harlan as a modern-day Joe Buck, a kind of four-in-the-afternoon cowboy, we're drawn by his waltz of innocence and vagueness. But Down in the Valley turns out to be one of those films with a thick, gummy overlay of Western ''mythology.''

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Edward Norton serves as lead actor and producer, but even his star power won't help this misfire reach a wide domestic audience.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    For a film that has allegedly undergone extensive tinkering following its premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Down in the Valley abounds in nagging loose ends and suffers overall from logy pacing.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    When a movie begins to present one implausible or unwise decision after another, when its world plays too easily into the hands of its story, when the taste for symbolism creates impossible scenes, we grow restless.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Scott Foundas

    Result is imperfect and overlong, but hugely ambitious and often breathtaking.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Begins semirealistically, then veers off course, hurtling into the wild blue yonder of myth and allegory. On the way to a climactic shootout that begins on the set of a Hollywood western and ends on a foggy hillside, it makes several screeching, hairpin turns.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

    Jacobson, whose earlier film is a docudrama about Jeffrey Dahmer, is clearly fascinated with men who would be monsters. It's a ripe and infinite topic to explore, but without Norton, theme alone could not have sustained Down in the Valley.

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