Rotten
Michael Cudlitz's first leading role is the sole selling point of this repellent character study.
Geoff Berkshire, Variety
The Grief Tourist
He Goes to Dark Places...
2013 · 1h 24m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Suri Krishnamma
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The Grief Tourist
Overview
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
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25%
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Rotten
Griffith's vulnerable performance is a standout. But the film's final third seems needlessly graphic.
Sara Stewart, New York Post
Rotten
"Dark Tourist" takes an effectively unpleasant trip down the lost highway of a morbid mind before its bad choices start catching up with it.
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Fresh
Griffith can break your heart as a good woman staggering under the weight of life, especially after her character places her last bit of faith in a dangerously damaged man.
Ernest Hardy, Village Voice
Rotten
"Dark Tourist" gets bogged down in insufferably slow-moving scenes - interestingly, when Jim is interacting with others, despite consummate performances from Cudlitz and Griffith.
Annlee Ellingson, Los Angeles Times
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