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An Ordinary Man

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Serbia, United States · 2017
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Brad Silberling
Starring Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz, Edmund Kingsley
Genre Action, Drama, War

A war criminal lives a lonely life --- moving from place to move place in fear of getting caught. Yet, when he hires a new young maid, he begins to form a relationship with her. Suddenly, his isolated, mysterious life concerns the two them.

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ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Every time An Ordinary Man seems to be headed into a minefield of clichés, it takes an unexpected detour and the film’s final such excursion comes like a gut-punch.

75

The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

This story isn’t working towards a solution or revisionist history. It merely reminds us that the Devil doesn’t commit atrocities. Men and women do. Kingsley and Hilmar ensure we believe this by delivering three-dimensional performances we’re used to seeing on the heroic side.

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The New York Times by Ken Jaworowski

A head-scratcher that ends with a shoulder-shrug, An Ordinary Man feels like a scene-study exercise in which two actors invest full measures in a script that’s only half finished.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

An incredibly precise actor who understands exactly how to play to the camera, conveying volumes via even the slightest microexpressions, Kingsley navigates the tricky mix of humor, horror, and deep-seated regret that make this man, if not exactly ordinary, then relatable, at least.

40

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Kingsley is certainly committed to the arc of tough guy stripped bare, but his gifts aren't served well by an artificially studious attempt at applying Understanding 101 logic to a perpetrator of atrocities.

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