Rotten
What they deliver is the sort of fake mysticism that usually ensues when secular intellectuals try to plumb the depths of religious faith.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
The mystery isn't who. But why.
2010 · 1h 31m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Werner Herzog
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Overview
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Director and cast
- Werner Herzog Director
- Michael Shannon as Brad McCullum
- Willem Dafoe as Detective Hank Havenhurst
- Chloë Sevigny as Ingrid
- Brad Dourif as Uncle Ted
- Michael Peña as Detective Vargas
- Loretta Devine as Miss Roberts
- Udo Kier as Lee Meyers
- Grace Zabriskie as Mrs. McCullum
- Irma P. Hall as Mrs. Roberts
- Jenn Liu as Receptionist
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
51%
Tomatometer
Fresh
My Son, My Son... may be a minor work in the Herzog canon but it's still one of the more fascinating, frustrating, disturbing and beautiful experiences available to cinemagoers this year.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Rotten
One of Herzog's quirky misfires.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh
Confounds all convention and denies all expected pleasures, providing instead the delight of watching Herzog feed the police hostage formula into the Mixmaster of his imagination.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Lynch and Herzog have tickled us for years with their dwarves and iguanas and impenetrable stories. This collaboration represents the vanishing point of willful obscurity.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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