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PUZZLE is a closely observed portrait of Agnes, who has reached her early 40s without ever venturing far from home, family or the tight-knit immigrant community in which she was raised by her widowed father. That begins to change in a quietly dramatic fashion when Agnes receives a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday gift and experiences the heady thrill of not only doing something she enjoys, but being very, very
Rating
R (language)
Director
Marc Turtletaub
Studio
Sony Pictures Classics
Writer
Oren Moverman
- As with a jigsaw puzzle, the overall picture may look familiar, but there's a real sense that craftsmanship has gone in to making sure each of the pieces fit satisfyingly together.Reply
- With its methodically tidy structure and a script that, beat for beat, lays the pieces to be a quintessential crowd-pleaser, Puzzle fits together like a perfect, well... you know.Reply
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- The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.Reply
- Turtletaub does have a hard time finding a way to conclude Agnes' story, but he ends "Puzzle" on such a delightful note of simplicity, that this near-perfect movie nevertheless stuns.Reply
- We should be grateful that it exists, if only because it affords a long-overdue leading role to Kelly Macdonald ...Reply
- Moverman's script, based on the Argentinian film Rompecabezas by Natalia Smirnoff, is graceful with the details and its characters.Reply