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Movie Overview
Director
Marina Zenovich
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
REVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh
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4.5/5
"Roman Polanski deserves his badge of dishonor, no question about it. This amazing documentary argues that others need to start sporting one as well."
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
8/10
"None of the interviewees in Marina Zenovich's fascinating documentary manages to make sense of the famous filmmaker's behavior or apparent thinking. But they all have compelling impressions."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
4/5
"a great and somewhat Kafkaesque story that Polanski might have enjoyed directing... had it been fiction."
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
3/4
"Seeks to explore both sides of the endless debate and asks all parties to consider every angle before labeling him as a pedophile or misunderstood genius..."
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
"A judiciously argued account with intriguing asides"
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
3.5/4
"an essential entry in Hollywood's cultural chronicle"
Cinema Writer
Jay Antani
2/4
"Its indictment ultimately feels like a secondary issue to Polanski's apparently incontrovertible guilt, which makes him--in this instance--still more victimizer than victim."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
B
"The film walks a fine line between contempt for Polanski's crimes and sympathy for his trials and his screwed-up psyche, and it manages both..."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh
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