Fresh
Larrain's (literally) dark, edgy movie is a precise artistic commentary on Augusto Pinochet's miserable regime, which was 
under way while Travolta gyrated.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Larrain evokes the bleakness and oppressiveness of life in a police state with much subtlety even as he poses a much larger question about cultural imperialism.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Shot with a hand-held camera and presented in a fragmented scenario, Tony Manero is the director's compelling attempt to find parallels between the Pinochet reign of terror and Raul's scruple-less antics.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
A memorably claustrophobic evocation of its time and place, as well as a reminder that the so-called escape offered by pop culture can sometimes be an escape into soul-sucking madness.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
More than an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie, Tony Manero is an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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