The Limits of Control

It's a lousy letdown, at once naive and too freighted with real-life meaning for a film that -....his absence from most of the film hints what will happen in the unfortunately obvious climax..... ... Full Review

somehow failed to toast Jarmusch's similarly patterned 1995 tone poem "Dead Man," making "Control" much more of a frustrating sit than an automatically disregarded one.....This is not a hollow motion picture, just an inert one, displaying a puzzling atlas of abstraction that seems sincere enough;.... ... Full Review

The Limits of Control" is an imposing spread of baffling puzzle pieces without any box art to employ as a guide to completion.....This is not a hollow motion picture, just an inert one, displaying a puzzling atlas of abstraction that seems sincere enough;....somehow failed to toast Jarmusch's similarly patterned 1995 tone poem "Dead Man," making "Control" much more of a frustrating sit than an automatically disregarded one..... ... Full Review

The Limits of Control" will probably anger as many people as it amuses..... ... Full Review

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's deliberately hollow halfway-dadaist hit-man thriller seems ambivalent.... ... Full Review

German director Werner Herzog, whose films from the past 40 years are being screened at the fest, will give a masterclass in which he discusses his diverse cinematic career, which includes more than 50 documentary and fiction shorts and features. ... Full Article

Nice scenery, not much plot... John Hurt in The Limits of Control. Their role is to slip in and out of the narrative, wearing jokey disguises which only serve to add to the air of puzzlement. ... Full Article

One of the reasons I came to Karlovy Vary was to see the latest film from Jim Jarmusch , The Limits Of Control , which was heavily tipped to appear in Cannes but never did. ... Full Article

"The Limits of Control" is an imposing spread of baffling puzzle pieces without any box art to employ as a guide to completion. The film demands attention on a marathon scale, yet rewards the intensive effort with copious amounts of... ... Full Article

Taking its title from an essay on language by beat writer William S. Burroughs, and its threadbare plot from hit-men movies like John Boorman's Point Blank , Jim Jarmusch's latest film is more about concept than content. ... Full Article

There are endless ways to film a face, particularly one with such a rich landscape as Isaach De Bankol?'s - cheekbones rising sharply over deep valleys, thundercloud eyes gazing straight into the gathering storm, a wide plain of a forehead... ... Full Article