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Movie Overview
Cast
• Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Edie Falco
• Tony Shalhoub
Director
• Danny Leiner
MPAA Rating
R - for language and some sexuality.
The Great New Wonderful (2006)

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OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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"[Maggie] Gyllenhaal ... slips into character with greater ease than any other young American actress now in the movies."  Blogcritics.org  Alan Dale

"Yet -- and quite in spite of its plinky piano score -- The Great New Wonderful conjures occasional vividness, irrepressible pain or insight."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

B-
"There are amusing moments sprinkled throughout the film, a few genuine laughs, and some nicely played dramatic scenes."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C
"Leiner...wants to say something important, but his cinematic and narrative technique isn't up to the task."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

4/5
"A riveting and quirky movie about the aftershocks of 9/11 in the lives of a group of people still in denial a year later."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

"No film that I've yet seen better captures the dismal mood that gripped the city in the wake of the [9/11] attacks..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1.5/4
"Exhibits no trace of the random, goofy humor found in Leiner's first two directorial efforts."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf

Read review  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.
OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh
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