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Shadows

Sometimes the dead speak louder than the living.

2007 · 2h · N/A Drama, Horror, Mystery
Directed by Milcho Manchevski

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Overview

A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...

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60%
Tomatometer
Rotten

Milcho Manchevski's Shadows is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural cliches.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh

An unwieldy hybrid of historical allegory and supernatural mystery.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

A respectable enough little ghost story, but it loses a lot of sparkle by being similar to such other guy-talks-to-the-dead thrillers as The Sixth Sense and Ghost Town.

Noel Murray, AV Club
Rotten

Shifting between garish city and bucolic scenes, Shadows offers some arresting images but fails to make good on its intriguing early scenes, with frissons of uncanny menace sunk by a glib, awkwardly paced and increasingly cliche screenplay.

Ben Walters, Time Out New York
Fresh

[The] two very attractive leads, Mr. Nacev and Ms. Stanojevska, were picked out of a pool of aspirants in Macedonia and its neighboring countries. Actually, they are so arresting together that it is truly unearthly.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

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