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Apartment Zero

1989 · 2h 4m · R Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by Martin Donovan

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Overview

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.

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74%
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Rotten

It pretends to be a psychological-political melodrama but plays like the work of a dilettante; that is, the work of someone who wants to make movies, has the means to make them, but doesn't, as yet, know what he wants to make them about.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

A minor skid for Donovan is sure-driving for too many others.

Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh

It gets your attention, makes you laugh and passes the time for a while.

Rita Kempley, Washington Post

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