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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

… has to be seen to be believed. Read full review

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

  • 4.0
    66

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Those who can surrender to the Quays' poetic logic will find The Piano Tuner to be nothing short of a masterpiece.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety

    Impresses as a visually exquisite, rigorously intellectual but dauntingly obscurantist fable about automatons, opera singers and herniated desire that will appeal exclusively to arthouse auds with rarefied tastes.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    The story--is only important in that it gives the Quays a foundation for their fabulous animated tableaux.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

    Flaunting elements of "Phantom of the Opera" and "The Island of Lost Souls," the movie, with its haunting, claustrophobic environment, allows the living and the merely lifelike to interact with an eerie beauty.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    The film is about vanity and pride, and the caging of beauty. Its elaborate fabrication has an intoxicating quality that captures the imagination like all good horror stories.

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