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By Anthony Lane
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Feb 25, 2011
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With performances like these, the result is not so much an issue movie as a study of human quiddity and stubbornness under siege.
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Orlando Sentinel
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9
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By Roger Moore
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Feb 25, 2011
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The film sets us up to judge and then upends those judgments.
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Chicago Reader
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By J. R. Jones
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Feb 25, 2011
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John Cameron Mitchell directed, making an impressive detour in style and subject matter after his flamboyant Shortbus and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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Denver Post
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9
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By Lisa Kennedy
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Feb 25, 2011
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Rabbit Hole, directed with grace and surprising humor by John Cameron Mitchell, is a delicate tale that shares a great deal of the hurt of Robert Redford's Ordinary People.
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Detroit News
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7
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By Tom Long
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Feb 25, 2011
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As heavy, stressful, relentlessly sad dramas go, this one goes quite well.
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Detroit Movie Examiner
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8
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By Tom Santilli
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Jan 14, 2011
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Genre: DramaOpens Friday, January 14th 2010 (check local listings)Run Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes, Rated PG-13Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne WiestDirected by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus)'Rabbit Hole' is a story about loss, and tragedy, told in a surprisingly gentle and uplifting manner. Howie and Becca Corbett, played by Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman, are a married couple that seemin...
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Film.com
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9
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By Eric D. Snider
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Jan 07, 2011
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There's a lot of beauty to be mined from that depressing-sounding scenario, thanks to well-drawn characters, impeccable performances, and sensitive direction.
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Richard Roeper.com
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9
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By Richard Roeper
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Jan 05, 2011
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Nicole Kidman does her best work in years in a film that at times is almost unbearably authentic.
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
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8
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By Joseph Airdo
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Jan 03, 2011
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One must really have patience when seeing 'Rabbit Hole,' the new drama starring Nicole Kidman as a mother grieving the loss of her son.Naturally, the topic itself is a challenging one to tackle, to say the least. But director John Cameron Mitchell is also determined to make the movie seep into the audience slowly rather than spelling everything out....
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Dallas Morning News
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9
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By Chris Vognar
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Dec 28, 2010
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It's not exactly full of holiday cheer. Then again, perseverance can inspire and enlighten any time of the year.
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Arizona Republic
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8
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By Bill Goodykoontz
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Dec 27, 2010
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The film is quiet, patient, allowing for lived-in performances that get at the enormous change in the characters' lives.
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Boston Globe
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9
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By Ty Burr
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Dec 27, 2010
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Eckhart works close to the top of his range here -- Howie is a guy's guy ill-equipped to fight something he can't see -- but Kidman simply goes above and beyond.
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Washington Post
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8
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By Ann Hornaday
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Dec 27, 2010
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What on the surface seems to possess all the melodrama and photogenic suffering of a banal prime-time weepie instead becomes a lucid, tough, deeply sensitive examination of emotional fortitude.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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9
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By Colin Covert
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Dec 24, 2010
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Nicole Kidman is strikingly good as Becca, infusing clipped dialogue and fleeting expressions with great depth of feeling.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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5
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By Mick LaSalle
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Dec 24, 2010
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As a viewing experience, the film is by turns heartrending and stultifying, but mostly stultifying.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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By Carrie Rickey
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Dec 24, 2010
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Wrenching, poignant, and quietly healing.
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Phoenix Film Industry Examiner
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10
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By Stan Robinson
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Dec 24, 2010
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The lives of a happily married couple (Nicole Kidman & Aaron Eckhart) is turned upside down after their young son dies in an automobile accident in'Rabbit Hole'. As any parent knows, that's an aspect we really hope we're never faced with. Each deals with the loss in their own way, both inwardly and exteriorly affecting their lives as well as each of their friendships with life long friends and relatives, as they try to find the peace to ...
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ReelViews
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9
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By James Berardinelli
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Dec 23, 2010
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Those who venture into Rabbit Hole with their expectations properly aligned will leave fulfilled and perhaps with a slightly different perspective on a few things.
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Chicago Tribune
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8
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By Michael Phillips
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Dec 23, 2010
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Conventionally made but extremely well-acted. It does what most stage-to-screen adaptations do not. It works.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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9
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By Roger Ebert
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Dec 23, 2010
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The film is in a better state of mind than its characters. Its humor comes, as the best humor does, from an acute observation of human nature. We have known people something like this. We smile in recognition.
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New York Magazine
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By David Edelstein
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Dec 20, 2010
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The Kidman in Rabbit Hole is a revelation.
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CNN.com
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By Tom Charity
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Dec 18, 2010
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Rabbit Hole isn't just well written and beautifully acted, it's simply devastating.
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Rolling Stone
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9
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By Peter Travers
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Dec 18, 2010
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Kidman, doing her best work in years, just comes at you. Her final scene with the splendid Wiest, who builds her character with uncommon feeling, is devastating. So is the movie. It takes a piece out of you.
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Newark Star-Ledger
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9
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By Stephen Whitty
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Dec 18, 2010
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You never regret that Nicole Kidman ended up being the actress who got this made.
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Globe and Mail
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9
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By Rick Groen
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Dec 18, 2010
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Don't go down this Rabbit Hole unless you wish to see a superb film that treats a sad topic with unflinching honesty.
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Los Angeles Times
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6
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By Kenneth Turan
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Dec 17, 2010
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The piece as a whole feels earnest and well-meaning but rarely compelling, a film that is almost too decorous to be as involving as it should be.
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New York Daily News
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4
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By Joe Neumaier
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Dec 17, 2010
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Kidman is able to draw you in even as the movie's solemn, morbid obviousness wears you out.
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MSN Movies
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9
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By James Rocchi
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Dec 17, 2010
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[It] looks like another American indie film of ugly feelings and beautiful furniture, big acting and small paychecks. It isn't; it's one of the best, most human, most true films of the year.
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NPR
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By Ella Taylor
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Dec 17, 2010
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Though Rabbit Hole tells a familiar tale, its goofy, loving feel for human cruelty and rage, for kindness and breakthrough bursts of exuberance, lifts this lovely chamber piece high above the crowd.
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New York Times
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By A.O. Scott
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Dec 17, 2010
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All that emotion never quite manages to inspire the deep, resonant empathy these stricken parents -- and, more to the point, we in the audience -- so desperately need.
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USA Today
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By Claudia Puig
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Dec 17, 2010
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Rabbit Hole is a finely tuned portrait of grief that takes its time unfolding, much like the actual process of mourning.
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Toronto Star
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9
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By Peter Howell
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Dec 17, 2010
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A perceptive and sympathetic film by John Cameron Mitchell that looks at grief by way of selfish reasonableness.
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Wall Street Journal
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By Joe Morgenstern
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Dec 17, 2010
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[Kidman's] beautiful performance transcends the specifics of the script, which David Lindsay-Abaire adapted from his play of the same name.
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Tampa Movie Examiner
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6
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By Joe Belcastro
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Dec 16, 2010
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Having an accomplished cast is always a good idea if one plans on following the typical storytelling pattern seen in others depicting similar themes. Rabbit Hole is just that. The 91 minute feature follows a married couple who is struggling to cope with tragedy. So although the flick mimics others, it still has a legit shot in standing out if the performances can enhance script.Becca (Nicole Kidman) and her husband Howie (Aaron Eckhart) seemingly had the perfect life....
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New York Observer
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By Rex Reed
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Dec 16, 2010
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Eschewing clichés, Rabbit Hole is disturbing yet refreshing evidence that for some people, redemption takes longer, and for others, the pain never goes away at all.
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Village Voice
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By Karina Longworth
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Dec 16, 2010
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Here the proceedings are so lifeless that you find yourself rooting for the narrative to fully tread into the disaster zones with which it flirts.
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Newsweek
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By David Ansen
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Dec 16, 2010
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How do you patch together a relationship that has been sundered by grief? The answers it gives, tentative and hard-won, may not be surprising, but they feel right.
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TIME Magazine
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By Richard Corliss
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Dec 16, 2010
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This is how movies can bring a great, grave theme to indelible dramatic life.
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Entertainment Weekly
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7
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By Owen Gleiberman
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Dec 16, 2010
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The canniest thing about it is that it carves shrewd and lively dramatic arcs out of souls who are too damaged to feel their own feelings.
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New York Post
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By Lou Lumenick
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Dec 16, 2010
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Kidman and fellow Oscar-winning Wiest could pick up Oscar nominations for this dryly un-sentimental black comedy.
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Hollywood Reporter
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By Kirk Honeycutt
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Dec 16, 2010
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The writing is too self-aware. The film cries out for moments that are not about the couple's search for re-engagement.
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Variety
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By Peter Debruge
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Dec 16, 2010
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Grief may be the topic under examination, but humor -- incisive, observant and warm -- is the tool with which it's dissected in Rabbit Hole.
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DVDTown.com
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8
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By James Plath
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Dec 16, 2010
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Painful as it is to watch, "Rabbit Hole" engages you, imploring you to care about the characters and think about how complex the human psyche can be.
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Associated Press
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By Christy Lemire
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Dec 16, 2010
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Kidman does some of her most effective work in a while here.
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