Movie Review

Renaissance (2006)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Sep 20, 2006

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Release Date: Sep 22, 2006; Rated: R; Length: 103 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Animation, Drama; With: Daniel Craig

$DRAWING A BLANK Volckman\'s Renaissance looks like a million, but it\'s got nothing to offer beyond its surface sheen$

DRAWING A BLANK Volckman's Renaissance looks like a million, but it's got nothing to offer beyond its surface sheen

Connoisseurs of digital animation, graphic novels, and the history of dystopian art will have plenty to discuss about Christian Volckman's visually striking, technically impressive black-and-white animated feature Renaissance, set in 2054 Paris, when advances in the field of age reversal are co-opted by corporate greed. Behold the influence of Metropolis, Blade Runner, Sin City — and on and on. But no one will be talking about the movie's banal plot, the trite dialogue, or any of the indistinguishable characters who offer a bleak futuristic vision of cinema that's all style, no soul.

Originally posted Sep 20, 2006 Published in issue #899 Sep 29, 2006 Order article reprints

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