SummaryThe Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner, a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through ... Read More
Directed By:Jim Jarmusch
Written By:Jim Jarmusch
The Limits of Control
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Mixed or Average
41
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Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
41
14% Positive
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A little like guided meditation with suggestions floated, waiting, left untethered. It's up to you to distill meaning -- which will leave some convinced the director is merely self-indulgent, and others deeply satisfied.
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A nondramatic work best appreciated as a pure image-and-sound event.
50
Even the great ones hit snags. With The Limits of Control, Jim Jarmsuch gets tangled up in his own deadpan.
42
It's exactly the film Jarmusch wanted to make, but it's also smug, excruciating, borderline pointless. You could call it a deliberate effort to invert the conventions of the thriller; you could also call it, more rightly, a self-deluded disaster.
38
Jarmusch has come up with a dud.
25
The result is that rare movie specimen, a completely intentional, expertly guided work of art that fails almost completely.
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Jim Jarmusch's Dada meander, shot by Christopher Doyle, is empty and excruciating -- that's really all you need to know.
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Generally Favorable
6.3
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