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The Dancer Upstairs
2002 2h 12m R
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A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
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Directed By
John Malkovich
Written By
Nicholas Shakespeare
Studio
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Cast of The Dancer Upstairs
Javier Bardem
Agustín Rejas
Juan Diego Botto
Sucre
Laura Morante
Yolanda
Elvira Mínguez
Llosa
Alexandra Lencastre
Sylvina Rejas
Oliver Cotton
Merino
Luís Miguel Cintra
Calderón
Javier Manrique
Clorindo
Abel Folk
Ezequiel / Durán
Xabier Elorriaga
Pascual
Natalia Dicenta
Marina
John Malkovich
Abimael Guzman (uncredited)
Wolframio Sinué
Santiago
Lucas Rodríguez
Gómez
The Dancer Upstairs Reviews
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
A welcome throwback to a time when political thrillers relied more on character and tone than on car chases and gun battles.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It is not revolutionary, but it brims with promise and a love of film, and is a fine if worried dance indeed.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Moving, melancholy, and, yes, political.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
Bardem's performance lingers in ways that give the movie resonance.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Reflects its director, being intelligent and elegantly turned-out but distant.
Arizona Republic
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Delivers a haunting story of crime and passion.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The Dancer Upstairs is, like its director, sleek, mysterious and intelligent. But until its last-half hour or so, it is also, unfortunately, mind-numbing.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It thrives on the hush before the explosion instead of its aftermath, and it's that eerie sense of expectation that gives the film its thick aura of suspense.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The film may strike some viewers as slow-paced -- it certainly struck me that way, at least some of the time -- but it's a pleasure seeing actors, particularly Bardem, given time to breathe.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
An elegant and intelligent drama.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Far from perfect but completely unique, the film could best be described as a paranoid South American metaphysical political thriller -- you heard me -- and whatever its failures, they're not ones of nerve or imagination.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An adult piece of work, made up mainly of quiet, emotional scenes and detailed performances.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
From this tangled web, Malkovich weaves something delicate and devastating.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Atmospheric but dramatically murky, a mood in search of a story.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Smart, upmarket entertainment.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Falters in small but important ways ... while Malkovich stays resolutely behind the camera, a consummate professional who, this time, misses his mark by the merest of degrees.
indieWire
Brandon Judell
With a clever Graham-Greene-esque script, choice acting by the whole ensemble (especially Bardem), fine music by Alberto Iglesias, and the strong directorial control of Malkovich, the film zips along.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A slow-burning affair that may seem exotic but mainly crawls from cliche to cliche.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It's not a great film, but in its reckless audacity ... it's reassuring. Someone's still willing to take a big chance.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
It is really quite wonderful, in the age of hyperkinetic thrillers, to encounter a movie that takes the time to record the play of thought and emotion in its characters, to let their conflicts develop in a natural and unforced way.
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