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(1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1   B "Kidman guides the audience through this saga of self-discovery with pliable reserve and a communicative face."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "doesn't necessarily bore but rather confounds"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 6/10 "In making her biography understandable, if "imaginary," it also makes [Arbus's] work—so thrillingly strange—a bit too familiar."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "In what seems like a sequel to Birth, we are treated to endless silent close-ups of Kidman's hard, porcelain face struggling to signal girlish repression and longing for release."   Slant Magazine   Dan Callahan "Shainberg manages the tricky task of showing us how the decidedly strange Arbus [saw] the world."   Portland Tribune   Dawn Taylor 3/5 "Una película diferente y para nada complaciente con el espectador, que permite aproximarse a una de las artistas más influyentes del siglo XX."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio 1/4 "What we basically have here in Shainberg exposing himself on screen as a wannabe auteur trying to sum up Arbus' life through a complete fantasy that isn't the least bit fantastical."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "Earns points for its approach, and also for audacity."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "A shaggy dog story for adults, but one that takes itself much too seriously...so pretentiously, and turgidly, dramatized that...it borders on the risible."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "An alluring psychodrama about Diane Arbus that celebrates freaks, the start of something completely different, and the liberation that comes when soul mates share their innermost secrets."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Fur's misstep, and it is significant, is in the creature design of Lionel. The resemblance to Chewbacca is uncanny. He also looks a little like Lon Chaney's Wolf Man."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Gutsy, ambitious, and unspeakably bizarre."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "Arbus was surely a complex personality and should have been given credit for it. Here, she's practically presented as a cipher."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen "Every fictional take on a real-life artist gets a few things wrong, but it's been a long time since I've seen one quite as spectacularly wrong or thoroughly insulting as Fur."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 2.5/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2.5/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis "Unfortunately, the romanticism of Fur falls flat - a miscast Kidman trying to pretend Robert Downey Jr.'s foul-mouthed wolfman is dangerous and sexy. He is neither."   Pretentious Musings   Kevin Koehler B+ "...a kinky fairy tale that uses a strange love affair as a metaphor for the artistic urge."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "A whiff of the ridiculous taints every scene."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 4.5/5 "These are themes that everyone can identify with, especially when they're expressed with such intelligence and artistry."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 8/10 "A fantastic and imaginative story of the normal and freakish in the fictitious prequel to the singular photography of Diane Arbus."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 2/10 "Perverse, pretentious and tiresome fantasy - with a narrow, hallucinogenic depth of field."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1.5/4 "Fur barely scratches the proverbial surface of its complex subject. You'll ultimately learn far more about Arbus by studying one of her photographs than by sitting through this pretentious bore."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 1.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek  (1 - 26) of 26 OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten Page   1