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Adoration
A junior high school - Simon is raised by uncle Tom since his parents died in an accident involving terrorism
30 March 1942, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
6 September 1958, Beirut, Lebanon
31 December 1969, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
13 November 1991, Canada
1958, Calabria, Italy
August 09, 2010
A chilly intellectualism sucks the dramatic life out of Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's Adoration.
February 02, 2010
Without the constrictions of an adapted text, Egoyan's creativity turns towards intellectual exercise.
August 26, 2011
In Egoyanland it's always winter, but that can be reassuring.
March 16, 2010
Though Egoyan, as usual, frequently strains credibility he at least manages to weave all of this into a fairly absorbing detective story that explores the roots and damaging implications of prejudice with unexpected grace.
July 17, 2009
Egoyan is nothing if not low key; and as dramatic as passages are here, he keeps the tone under control and the story believable.
October 01, 2010
Uneven enigmatic social drama that's framed like an imaginative mystery story.
February 02, 2010
Unfortunately the elaborately unspooled plot delivering these ideas in dramatic form is so scraggy and effortful it defeats the cast and rather compromises our involvement.
July 16, 2009
Bostick turns in a quietly mesmerizing performance, capturing Simon's sense of loss without slipping into pathos.
June 26, 2009
In Atom Egoyan's disconcerting and unpredictable Adoration, a young man's attempt to make sense of himself and his family's history turns strange when his re-imagined version of that history becomes a combustible topic for online chatter.
July 24, 2009
After a promising start, this ambitious but ultimately clunky and unwieldy movie dissolves into a pile of ideas in dire need of dramatization.
July 29, 2009
A gimmicky, sad and beautifully acted mystery that keeps its secrets even when it loses its grasp of the logical.
