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NUMBERS
Box Office: $215,134
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CONSENSUS
Well-acted in the execution of its provocative "what-if?" premise.
CAST & CREW
John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski
Directed by Menno Meyjes
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SYNOPSIS
Munich,1918: In a world reeling from World War One and the shock of the new, everyone's mind is on the future. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 48 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 27, 2002
Video: May 20, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Lions Gate Films
GENRE
Dramas, Historical, Artists, Historic Figures, Hitler
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Max Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "It's provocative stuff, but the speculative effort is hampered by Taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that Hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
 "As chilling and fascinating as Philippe Mora's modern Hitler-study, Snide and Prejudice."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"Leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of Hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Para Hitler, o mundo era sua tela; e o horror, seu pincel. E Max retrata este fato com elegante abandono, numa triste constatação da realidade histórica."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"An ambitious 'what if?' that works."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"Meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Works better in the conception than it does in the execution...winds up seeming just a little too clever."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form, but far too clunky, didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"A smart, provocative drama that does the nearly impossible: It gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil, monstrous lunatic."
-- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Max is one of the most challenging, and one of the best, films of the year."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Max pokes, provokes, takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve...as far as art is concerned, it's mission accomplished."
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"Max is an engrossing, repugnant, disturbing portrait of a dictator as a young unknown artist. It is compelling."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"Fascinating and tedious at the same time."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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"The premise is in extremely bad taste, and the film's supposed insights are so poorly thought-out and substance-free that even a high school senior taking his or her first psychology class could dismiss them."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"It takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"Meyjes ... has done his homework and soaked up some jazzy new revisionist theories about the origins of Nazi politics and aesthetics."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"It doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is, or even its attitude toward its subject."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Are monsters born, or made?"
-- Gabriel Shanks, COZZI FAN TUTTI CELLULOID MUSINGS
"Though everything might be literate and smart, it never took off and always seemed static."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in- the-blanks with a tragic past."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured, dull artist and monster-in-the- making."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Meyjes's movie, like Max Rothman's future, does not work."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Fascinating and tedious at the same time."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
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FRESH 71%
Avg. Rating: 6.5/10 |
"A flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"It's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script, unimpressive acting and indifferent direction."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It's a big idea, but the film itself is small and shriveled."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world, it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"It challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"The 'what-ifs' involved have offended some people, but I found the movie fascinating for its subtext about art and politics, then as now."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Cusack's just brilliant in this."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A vivid, spicy footnote to history, and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"With lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- Max is static, stilted."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"Audacious-impossible yet compelling..."
-- Josh Ralske, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
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* Certain "Max" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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