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The irony of Anesthesia is that, while it uses interconnectivity as a storytelling mechanism, the characters do not really connect.
Molly Eichel, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Anesthesia
Overview
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Stewart stands out because her one big scene seems so passionate and genuine. It's the only moment when "Anesthesia" seems to be working.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Rotten
A grand gesture going nowhere.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
A stellar cast of serious-minded players...fight a losing battle against the characters' overwritten dialogue and unlikely behavior.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A pile of incomprehensible existential gibberish by the vastly untalented actor-writer-director Tim Blake Nelson about the meaning of life in an age of technology, told in the tiresome style of multiple characters who intersect at odd angles ...
Rex Reed, New York Observer
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