‘Adoration’ is a dispiriting Egoyan misfire, a too-blunt but intriguingly indirect meditation on terrorism that then excavates dull motives.
Twitter Review: Adoration
21 Jun 2010
Permanent link: http://www.culturesnob.net/2010/06/tweet-16710946751/
Posted by Culture Snob on Monday, June 21, 2010.
Filed in Movies, Tweets and tagged Adoration (1), Atom Egoyan (6), Dramas (61), Terrorism (2), Twitter Reviews (61).
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