4.0
out of 100
Metascore®Generally favorable reviews Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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Jindabyne's strength and power come from a number of factors: its origin, its current landscape and the unusual way its writer-director, Ray Lawrence, has chosen to work.
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The same organic characterizations that marked Lawrence's acclaimed 2001 film "Lantana" will attract fans of strong adult drama.
Jindabyne -- named for the lakeside town in which the troubles spill -- can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney.
The real flaw is that the movie's best features -- the aching clarity of its central performances -- threaten to be lost in a wilderness of metaphor and mystification.
Never obtains the full impact of its potentially powerful inner core.
Has some strong acting. But largely because of its glacial pacing, the story ends up feeling too detached to move us as it should.
Jindabyne started with a bad idea and the finished film doesn't do well by it.
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… kind of a slog …
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