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To Dust

2018

Shawn Snyder

Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit

6.0

67

Comedy. Drama Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld.

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A dryly funny debut that pairs science and religious belief in a way that must surely be unique in the annals of cinema"
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"The deft execution and astute lead performances ultimately make this acquired taste of a movie not only digestible, but rather charming."
		David D'Arcy Screendaily	"[It is] bawdy, and at moments, very funny (...) The physical mess of death becomes a set of comic props like any other"
		Wesley Morris The New York Times	"You can see what this movie is after, something cockeyed but sincere (...) But the writing and filmmaking (Snyder directed) just aren’t quick enough."
		Yolanda Machado The Wrap	"Charming, quirky, human and, at times, macabre (...) A unique take on one of the most painful and important parts of being human, the film is original and honest"
		David Edelstein Vulture	"Every time Broderick said 'Shmell' I laughed — but then, I laughed at almost everything Broderick said (...) The film’s final moments are indelibly moving"

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