A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

A guide to recognizing your saints is so clumsy and amateur it would need a whole bunch of writers,directors and producers to save it from drowning.Yet,it's part of the charm of this indie flick.Excellent performances,yet stupid sotry that goes nowhere,good direction(though... Full review

Someone give Robert Downey Jr.'s agent a raise! RD's recent roles have brilliantly showcased his talents and none to the degree that A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints does. Not since Coppola's The Outsiders has a film so poignantly captured the... Full review

I thought the movie was excellent. The acting and directing of the movie was great. It is always nice to see a movie that doesn't follow the mainstream. LaBouf was excellent and I think was perfect for the role.... Full review

You get your loose endings. With these many fine actors it was a shame that this was all you had to work on. I know you should be true to the story, but you could always start from it and end... Full review

This movie was all over the place, but what truly got me was the casting. It made absolutely no sense to me... OK, when the movie started the kids were like 13 at the MOST. Flash forward 15 YEARS & you... Full review

First part of the movie grabs your attention but falls apart from there on. I really thought this movie was going be one of those films that will always stay with you but i rather forget it! Though it wasted my... Full review

I thought this film was decent overall. The soundtrack matched well worth the look and feel of the movie. I thought Robert Downey Jr. would've been in it more then he was. But that's ok. Shia LaBeuf does however deliver an... Full review

Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media bring to live one of the most heartwarming movies of 2007."Bridge To Terabithia" is about a about a young boy named Jess, who feels like an outsider at school and specially at home. But soon... Full review

He seems to not have his facts straight! I grew up with all of the characters in this horrible movie and the way he is depicting them is dead wrong! He obviously did not bother to do his research; nor talk... Full review

This was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. The acting is amazing. It is a beautiful movie.... Full review

he tries to obscure the hackneyed plot with elaborate street settings, chaotic fight scenes, and gratuitous helicopter shots.....the story builds to the predictable big-money grudge match, but the real battle is between Montiel and his own soulless script.... ... Full Review

he brings every faded fibre to the fore in this ambitiously gritty fight movie.....Without top-notch fight sequences, the movie fails to deliver what it promises in its own title....becomes little more than a well-intentioned drama without teeth or purpose.....it's a frustrating film experience to sit and wait for a knock-down round of macho scrapping....Fighting has the right plot, but without the blood.... ... Full Review

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is such a stunning and extraordinarily well made film....The thing that really makes this film outstanding is the two actors who play the two versions of Dito Montiel.....Really, though, everyone just excels in this film, especially improvising the dialogue to give a lot of it a very natural feel.....While these are interesting to see in order to relish the performances, I'm happy they were left out of the film..... ... Full Review

these heartbreaking characters burn brightly within their snapshot of fearless youth.....Montiel knows how to create visceral cinema using arresting images and a nostalgic soundtrack.... ... Full Review

None the less, a worthwhile, intelligent picture..... ... Full Review

SYNOPSIS: Dito Montiel (Robert Downey Jr.), a successful writer now living in Los Angeles, is summoned home to his poor burb of Astoria, in New York, 15 years after he fled, by his mother Flaurie (Dianne Wiest), when his father... ... Full Article

March 27, 2009 - 10:47 am Here at The Cinema Source we've been given the rare opportunity to post an early review of Fighting, a new film from director Dito Monteil (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) starring Channing Tatum... ... Full Article

Based on a memoir written by director and writer Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints tells of when he returns to his hometown of Astoria, New York after his father becomes seriously ill. ... Full Article

NOTE: I am reviewing this now based solely on recommendations by readers over the past year or so to check it out in an effort to change my negative opinion of Channing Tatum and what I believe to be his... ... Full Article

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I cannot imagine a show that has a cast list like this to not be great. Add to it the fact that it was written by Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait) and directed by Mike Nichols (Closer), and you have... ... Full Article