'R Xmas
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- Synopsis
- Cult favorite Abel Ferrara directed and co-wrote this story set in New York City in 1993, before Mayor Rudy Giuliani's much-publicized crusade against street crime put a dent in semi-public drug dealing in the city....
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- Starring
- Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Ice-T, Victor Argo
- Director(s)
- Abel Ferrara
- Distributor(s)
- Pathfinder
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 83 min.
Critic Reviews
A lean, well-contained slice-of-life at 83 minutes, 'R Xmas finds the director making a confident return to the hard-nosed realism on which he's staked his maverick reputation.Read the full review
Few directors can put loneliness on screen as persuasively or capture the eerie quiet of people waiting for something, anything to happen. It's in moments such as these, when all sense of time disappears and all that remains are bodies in motion and Ken Kelsch's limpid cinematography, that you remember just how good Ferrara can be.Read the full review
Despite some hazy plot points, the tough, compelling drama comes together quite satisfyingly, standing alongside 1996's "The Funeral" as perhaps the most controlled and cohesive of Ferrara's uneven work of recent years.Read the full review
