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The Adjuster

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An uptight insurance man (Elias Koteas) and his film-censor wife (Arsinée Khanjian) become a kinky couple's landlords.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times What is interesting is how Egoyan creates this intensely personal universe while at the same time making a movie that is funny and challenging. Rated: 3/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting [The Adjuster] is a haunting meditation on the struggle to connect to others; characters are instead caught in a cyclical baptism of fire, role-play, mediated video, and shimmering memories of violence. Rated: 4.5/5 Jan 30, 2024 Full Review Jason Shawhan Nashville Scene Nobody finds the humor in kink quite like Atom Egoyan. Sep 10, 2021 Full Review Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine The Adjuster is disturbing on a more cerebral level. Oct 15, 2019 Full Review Vanessa Letts The Spectator Is it thought provoking? No. Jul 25, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Fascinating earlier Egoyan film (my favorite of his) - weird, haunting, strangely funny. Great performance by Maury Chaykin. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/21/24 Full Review R 9 It's a bit of a bizarre one, but I did really enjoy 'The Adjuster'. Words aplenty I do not have, it's just simply a very good film. The music is, in my opinion, its standout feature, as it sets the tone incredibly well - the sense of trepidation throughout is super. Elias Koteas is an excellent lead, though Arsinée Khanjian and Maury Chaykin perform just as strongly. There's a lot to take in, but it is very much worthy of your time. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/20/23 Full Review Silvio In my top 25. I think it nails late capitalism to the wall in a funny, disquieting and cerebral manner. Not for everybody. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/20 Full Review Audience Member now this one was frustrating; i've got bits and pieces swirling around in my head but no interest to piece 'em together. to borrow a phrase from someone, it was "weird for weird's sake". my least fave atom egoyan. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member It looks like Egoyan is not for me. I see the world he creates or rather the vision of our world he shows on the screen. I get the message about us being alienated and lonely, without any attachment or link even to each other or the reality really. It's just that I don't feel it. This vision in the way he pictures it doesn't get into me. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh my Lord! This was a mess from start to end! This is a movie with uninteresting character, absurd (in a bad way) circumstanses and a gloomy atmosphere to top it all, just to make us think that we 're watching a David Lynch film in search of something familiar and actually great. This feel like it is Egoyan's "Matador". A dark film made by a future auteur (I haven't decided if Almodovar is actually one) who is still finding his voice and fails miserably at every turn. But at least in "Matador" there was a murder mystery to keep us reeled in! In this one the characters have their obsessions but they are not explored well enough in order to give us a good picture of their perverted nature. The film wants to show a broken, strange family that basicaly commits suicide with their everyday routine. This could have been done in a short film and we could have skipped all the turds of sequences that are found in this film. Sadly this is a bad film. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An uptight insurance man (Elias Koteas) and his film-censor wife (Arsinée Khanjian) become a kinky couple's landlords.
Director
Atom Egoyan
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 42m