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360
Released: 10/08/2012
General release
All Europe's a stage in City of God director Fernando Meirelles' latest. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's fin-de-siècle play La Ronde, 360 presents a tapestry of stories that helpfully highlight how diverse social classes are united by affairs of the heart. It wasn't wonderfully received on its premiere at the London Film Festival; will it fair better on general release?
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The Observer“Has a gleaming surface and a knowing air...” At the end one feels that 360 isn't concerned with taking decisions or dealing with fate. It's less about understanding the butterfly effect than observing some urban moths flitting around a guttering candle...
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Evening Standard“There are too many cameos and not enough substance to them...” You keep on hoping for more than you get from this slightly tall tale of a dozen or so characters interacting on various strange European journeys...
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Radio Times“A weak although not entirely listless portmanteau movie...” A plot strand involving a battle-weary Russian gangster who is tired of covering for his demanding boss; it's only here that the film shows even the slightest suggestion of scope, revealing something human, warm and real in a schematic drama...
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The Independent“Has the look of something significant, but it's a put-on: dud, actually...” In the end the film it most recalls isn't Babel but the multi-story romance of Love Actually... Beneath the tender illusion of strangers bonding with one another you feel the cold manipulation of a commercial artist...
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Little White Lies“A contrived, bubble-wrapped portrait of the global village...” There’s one Anthony Hopkins monologue to remember, but that only highlights everything the rest of the film so sorely lacks...
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Guardian“Wildly unconvincing...” Screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles have proven themselves mighty talents in the past, but they've come a catastrophic cropper with this bizarre film...lurching along in a wince-making series of tonal misjudgments...
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The Telegraph“A suspect exercise in daisy-chain miserabilism...” If you’re hoping for an intelligent night out or any of the usual services, 360 demands a brisk refund...
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Time Out film“A shaky construction...” ‘360’ is classy but utterly amorphous, and that seemingly benign title gives far too much away...
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Total Film “Bland, mushy snapshot of 21st-century inter-connectivity...” Banal, blundering and at times downright ludicrous, 360 is a full-circle misfire that Meirelles’ lively images can’t salvage...
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Empire“A great disappointment by the City Of God man's high standards...” The characters are so underdeveloped as to be opaque and this circuitous and sluggish story merely ends up chasing its tail to an uneven and unconvincing end...
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