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Max
Directed by
Menno Meyjes
R
2002
1h 46m
Drama
,
War
6.4
69%
64%
6.1
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A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.
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Cast of Max
John Cusack
Max Rothman / Associate Producer
Noah Taylor
Adolf Hitler
Leelee Sobieski
Liselore von Peltz
Molly Parker
Nina Rothman
Kevin McKidd
George Grosz
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Hildegard
Peter Capaldi
David Cohn
Ulrich Thomsen
Captain Mayr
Janet Suzman
Max's Mother
David Horovitch
Max's Father
Daisy Haggard
Heidi
Menno Meyjes
Director / Writer
François Ivernel
Executive Producer
Damon Bryant
Co-Producer
Lacia Kornylo
Associate Producer
Sidney Blumenthal
Associate Producer
Jonathan Debin
Executive Producer
Tom Ortenberg
Executive Producer
Cameron McCracken
Executive Producer
András Hámori
Producer
Max Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The film is torn between playing [Taylor's] character for real and as a dangerous joke.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured, dull artist and monster-in-the- making.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Taylor, hawk-faced and gaunt, pours everything into his portrayal of Hitler, never once seeking our sympathy for this angry, homeless loner.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
A fascinating and engrossing film.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux.
Detroit News
Tom Long
If it's not a completely successful film, it is at the very least an intriguing effort to humanize the demon.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Fascinating story from screenwriter- turned-director Menno Meyjes.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
One of the most intriguing and odd 'what if' movies ever conceived.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Mad Max just sails off into nonsense.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
With lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- Max is static, stilted.
Slate
David Edelstein
As a ravishingly photographed, high-minded meditation on the potential of art and therapy to exorcise the vilest sort of psychological poison, it is positively riotous -- an Everest of idiocy.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The best thing about Max is its originality.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An intelligent film with a sophisticated understanding of art and the significance it played in Hitler's psychology.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Peculiar and intriguing.
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
A mildly flawed but nonetheless compelling 'what if?' interpretation of the events that shaped a singularly hateful man.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds.
Observer
Rex Reed
A vivid, spicy footnote to history, and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The 'what-ifs' involved have offended some people, but I found the movie fascinating for its subtext about art and politics, then as now.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
It's a big idea, but the film itself is small and shriveled.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
It challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should.
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