
Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart and Nina Veronica are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate, and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned.... (Full plot summary below)
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Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart and Nina Veronica are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate, and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned.
Leave your thoughts about Masked and Anonymous.
| Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyThe film strains for some kind of meaning, but asks you to do the work it can't and won't perform on its own. |
| Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)Josh LarsenUndoubtedly a failure, yet an endlessly fascinating one... |
| San Diego Union-TribuneGeorge VargaA simultaneously serious and satirical film that should delight longtime Bob Dylan fans and mystify nearly everyone else. |
| Premiere MagazineScott WarrenIf you dissect Masked line by line, it would be, like a Dylan song, indecipherable. But if you take the allegory as a whole, by simply asking the questions, it somehow makes a statement. Is it muddled? Yes. Imperfect? Sure. Impenetrable? Well, that's open to interpretation. |
| Movie BoeufDavid N. ButterworthBob Dylan plays a thinly-disguised version of himself in this entertainingly overwritten star vehicle. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteA strange and convoluted film that is as rewarding as a Dylan song, and just as perplexing. |
| Milwaukee Journal SentinelNick CarterHow much you end up liking the film probably relates to how much you sympathize with Dylan or Dylan-like characters. |
| Movie City NewsLeonard Kladyrather than a polished manuscript Masked and Anonymous is a sketch book and that should come as no surprise considering the talent involved |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...read as a collection of moments, mortared together with some stirring music, both from Dylan and his band and from others on the soundtrack. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumRequires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it. |