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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a lively, powerful coming-of-age tale with winning performances and sharp direction from first-timer Dito Montiel. Read Critics Reviews
- (94)
- Dito Montiel
- R
- Robert Downey Jr.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Reviews. Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical 2001 novel into a vivid slice-of-life drama from the Jim Carroll school of disaffected...
Sep 29, 2006 · Terrible things happen in “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” Mr. Downey warns at the beginning that some of the people we meet in the movie will die before it’s over, and the nostrum...
- Dito Montiel
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is bursting with the flair of a debut director, who is eager to employ a wide variety of techniques steadicams, punctured narrative, flashbacks, script interjections, dreamlike non-chronological editing and an uneven pace.
With Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz. Coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.
- (27K)
- Crime, Drama
- Dito Montiel
- 2006-10-13
The film holds a 76% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site’s critics consensus reads, "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a lively, powerful coming-of-age tale with winning performances and sharp direction from first-timer Dito Montiel."
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