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  1. Watching "The Bag Man", if nothing else, gives you a heightened appreciation of the lighting designers in the 1940s and 1950s, who were able to fill those noir screens with encroaching shadows, creating a palpable sense of impending doom, while never sacrificing clarity of image.

  2. Feb 28, 2014 · The movie itself is equally confounding and wildly off-putting. It is, I think, quite possibly the worst film in De Niro’s career—not De Niro’s worst performance, mind you; he is only in about...

    • Christopher Schobert
  3. Busy with attitude and light on intrigue, The Bag Man is a mystery box with nothing surprising inside. A criminal waits in a seedy motel and waits for his boss after killing several men to steal...

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    • David Grovic
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    • Robert De Niro
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  5. “The Bag Man” is inspired by psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz’s novel “The Cat,” a strange Romanian fairy tale that depicts a princess who is bewitched into a cat until a prince decapitates her, which is the only way to break the spell. Grovic extracts the themes of redemption and unlikely pairs from the novel and interweaves them into his film.

  6. Feb 28, 2014 · By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Photo: Cinedigm. A wan little neo-noir whose intricacies inspire more tedium than suspense, The Bag Man is a good example of how to waste...

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  7. Mar 5, 2014 · Home. Film. Reviews. Mar 4, 2014 5:43pm PT. Film Review: ‘The Bag Man’. What's in the bag? A tedious, self-consciously quirky postmodern noir featuring John Cusack and Robert De Niro in two of...

  8. Maybe you have to have the right kind of sense of humor to enjoy it--almost nothing in this movie is meant to be taken seriously, not even the weird romantic tension that develops, and certainly not the eventually revealed backstory that drives the plot.

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