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Movie Overview
Cast
• Julianne Moore
• Stephen Dillane
• Eddie Redmayne
Director
• Tom Kalin
Savage Grace (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten
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C-
"Dark humor, along the lines of "The Honeymoon Killers," gives way to fractured set pieces that gesture toward the film's gratuitous climax, one that's destined to bestow upon it a cult status."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

2/4
"Rather than imitate the postmodernism chic of Far from Heaven or the parodic silliness of Die, Mommie, Die!, Kalin settles for a nondescript style whose sole function is to stay out of Moore's way."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D
"It is very pretty, and it feigns elegance well, but it is tawdry and shallow."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"Kalin is a very brave and honest filmmaker (and plenty astute), but his subject matter argues that some stories need not be told."  Bangitout.com  Jordan Hiller

"When [Moore] embarrasses her son by forcing him to read a passage from de Sade's Justine (introduction by Georges Bataille!), ... it's a potent familial cruelty to place alongside the best of Davis and Crawford."  House Next Door  Keith Uhlich

3/5
"This film has plenty of strong performances and provocative themes, but is too episodic to come together."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline
OFCS Rating: 33% Rotten
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