Rotten
A frustrating, oblique and portentous endurance test.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
The Banishment
If you want to kill, kill. If you want to forgive, forgive.
2008 · 2h 38m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Andrey Zvyagintsev
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The Banishment
Overview
While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
We will not reveal more of the plot in the hope that one day it will be playing in a theater near you . It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody.
Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten
If only the ravishing opening shot of Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was followed up with both beauty and something genuinely profound, then disappointment wouldn't be so palpable.
Jay Weissberg, Variety
Rotten
A movie falls into the clutches of long, solemn stares into space, meaningful drags on cigarettes, cryptic dialogue revealing little and a tiny drama that feels old, tired and empty of real purpose.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
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