Richard Brody The New Yorker Oct 30, 2017

Despite the film's false notes, its balladlike moods ring true.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 30, 2009

The bitterness of the playwright's vision is expanded by the director's fascinated fondness for American culture

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 20, 2009 C

Apart from an extraordinary scene of attempted reconciliation between Shepard and Lange "Don't Come Knocking" is an inflated drama that lies stagnate on the screen.

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Jonathan Kiefer Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 3/5

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Oct 3, 2006 2.5/5

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Richard Falcon Sight & Sound Sep 28, 2006

[It has] a terrific sense of place, something missing from much contemporary US cinema.

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Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total Aug 26, 2006 3/5

Wim Wenders y Sam Shepard (Paris, Texas) recuperan (en excelente fotografía y mejor música) una iconografía norteamericana al servicio de una historia sobre el desarraigo y la necesidad de recuperar vínculos largamente perdidos.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Aug 24, 2006 C

... is so meandering it can make a sober viewer into a drunk.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Jul 6, 2006 2/4

The widescreen visual poetry of "Don't Come Knocking" seems less like inspiration and more like overcompensation.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Jun 28, 2006

The story, jointly cooked up, is reasonable, if not their best, but Shepard's screenplay is a real disappointment, failing to lock into gear at any time.

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Geoff Andrew Time Out Jun 24, 2006

By the time we get to the point where the camera is endlessly circling Shepard sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street, it feels as if he and his director were making things up as they went along.

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Todd Jorgenson Denton Record-Chronicle Jun 12, 2006

...the long-awaited reunion of writer-actor Sam Shepard and German filmmaker Wim Wenders yields only mixed results.

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Robert W. Butler Kansas City Star Jun 2, 2006 2/4

Emotionally arid and narratively lazy, the film is so tentative it seems to be evaporating before our very eyes.

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Bill Muller Arizona Republic Jun 1, 2006 2/5

The story is as meandering as it is self-indulgent.

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Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal May 26, 2006 1.5/4

Potential filmgoers should read the title carefully. Then take the message heart.

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John Wirt Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) May 26, 2006 4/10

Aspires to be a story of redemption and discovery, but it's too undercooked to be either.

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 19, 2006 78/100

... the story ... isn't big enough to stand up to the characters who blow through it or to resist being overwhelmed by the geography on which it's set.

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Laura Kelly South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 18, 2006 3/4

A sparse, rolling drama with some strong laughs that prods at a western movie star's surprising past.

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Corey Hall Orlando Weekly May 18, 2006

Though there are a few great moments from the supporting players, they can't compensate for the emotional doughnut at the center of the story: a selfish, inarticulate lump where a leading man should be.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall May 6, 2006 3/5

Provocative and haunting, but as a moviegoing experience, it's rather elusive.

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