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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
The movie's underlying theme is the complex relationship between objects and memories, worked out through a taut, compelling story and superbly understated acting. Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the atmospheric score.
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Village Voice by Dennis Lim
Oneiric as it is, though, Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on.
50
Variety by Derek Elley
Ultimately, this is a striking-looking film -- consciously recalling the paintings of Edward Hopper in its architectural use of space -- which, like its protag, is a little short on real feeling.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The result is a quietly simple fable that hits you hardest after it's over.
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Film Threat by Eric Campos
You really have to be in the right mood to sit through Tony Takitani. You have to be ready to take in a thoroughly depressing story that moves...very...slowly.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
This minimalist meditation on loneliness and loss is so spare and drained of color that it seems always on the verge of fading into invisibility.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A delicate wisp of a film with a surprisingly sharp sting.
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Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
It's a quiet dream of a movie, a vision of loneliness giving way to love, then to loneliness again; it's like "Vertigo" remade in a sedately haunted style of Japanese lyricism.
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The New Republic by Stanley Kauffmann
Not many of us, I think, would want to see many films made this way, possibly not one more, but this one is an intriguing glance at the director-as-god, deigning to treat human frailty with imperial sway, assuming that his art justifies this slender material.
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New York Post by V.A. Musetto
No adventurous filmgoer will want to miss Tony Takitani.