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The Key: proof the studio reads its own marketing too literally.
“Plot holes? We fell in.”
— THE DEVIL TOMATO
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1983 · Drama / Romance
The Key
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
— THE CRITIC'S ROAST
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— THE DOSSIER
RELEASE DATE
1983
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GENRE
Drama / Romance
PLOT SUMMARY
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
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@REEL_DEAL2025-12-28 09:00 UTC
The Key: an airport-run cliché stretched into a feature film.
@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-14 12:00 UTC
The Key is a cinematic experience designed specifically for film students who want to feel superior at dinner parties.
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-07 08:00 UTC
If whispered monologues were currency, The Key would settle the national debt.
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r/flicks · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 3.1k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in The Key?
Look, I wanted to love The Key. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/criticalkino · u/CinephileCynic🔥 3.5k points
The cinematography in The Key is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Honestly, The Key would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/movies · u/CinephileCynic🔥 3.6k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Key actually is?
Rewatched The Key last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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