It is the story of the movie that embodies nearly 17 years of marriage, in which Barbara and Oliver Rose want out again. It seems that both of them are trying everything to get each other to leave the house in order to fight a new battle called the outrageous divorce battle.
De Vito's quirky camera angles and Kathleen Turner's steely-eyed spite inject a sadistic comic-strip madness into a film that for once has the nerve to see its nastiness through.
Pretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
Blu-ray.com
September 28, 2012
Greatly amusing, but its lasting achievement is DeVito's atmospheric authority, shaping a genuine filmmaking triumph in style and mood that deserves a standing ovation.
DeVito's direction is distinctively odd (with a lot of low-angle shots looking up at things), enjoyably mischievous and always somehow mindful that there may be, at the heart of all this comic mayhem, something substantial going on.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
TV Guide
July 30, 2003
DeVito exerts a control behind the camera that is otherwise almost nonexistent in contemporary American film comedy.
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a
nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...
