Movie Review

Adoration (2009)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | May 08, 2009

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: May 08, 2009; Genre: Thriller; With: Scott Speedman

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Atom Egoyan's latest glum puzzle is a meditation on post-9/11 hysteria, but it's too much What's the meaning of terrorism? cud chewing too late. In Toronto, a teenager (Devon Bostick) stands before a high school class and pretends that his  father was a terrorist who tried (and failed) to use his wife to blow up an airplane. There  is much else in Adoration (a fatal car crash, angry ranting on video chat rooms), but the upshot is that those who appear to be guilty may not be — a muddled  message for our time. C

Originally posted May 05, 2009 Published in issue #1047 May 15, 2009 Order article reprints

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