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Charlotte Gray
Warner Bros.

Charlotte Gray reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 48 Metascore out of 100
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8.7 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some war related violence, sensuality and brief strong language

Starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, John Pierce Jones, and Rupert Penry-Jones

Set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II, Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman (Blanchett) working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. (Warner Bros.)


GENRE(S): Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Jeremy Brock
Sebastian Faulks (novel)
 
DIRECTED BY: Gillian Armstrong  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 9, 2002 
Video: July 9, 2002 
Theatrical: December 28, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 121 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: Germany / UK / Australia 

What The Critics Said

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80
Washington Post Desson Thomson
Has an intoxicating, old-fashioned feel about it. We are instantly lost in the period, thanks to cinematographer Dion Beebe's almost haloed images and Joseph Bennett's authentic, restrained production design.
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80
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Charlotte Gray is not a subtle movie, but it is an honorable and surprisingly gripping one.
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80
Salon.com Charles Taylor
Lush, even juicy entertainment.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Cate Blanchett has the title role, and she does wonders with it, bringing a degree of passion but also suggesting something essentially unevolved in Charlotte's character.
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75
USA Today Claudia Puig
Displays so much promise with its beautiful cinematography and superb portrayal by Cate Blanchett that you scarcely notice (or even care) that the story is a bit thin.
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75
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
An old-fashioned romantic adventure film strongly acted, ably directed and written with stolid sobriety, the film feels, save for a few moments of verbal or physical intensity, as if it could have been made 60 years ago with Ingrid Bergman in the lead.
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
This is a movie that, for all its often high intelligence and skill, seems emotionally underdone, bogged down in tony literary and cinematic cliches.
63
ReelViews James Berardinelli
From a purely technical perspective, Charlotte Gray is expertly made -- the cinematography and music are evocative, and lead actress Cate Blanchett has no problem holding our attention. But, while Armstrong gets the notes right, she fails to play them with inspiration.
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60
Film Threat Michael Dequina
The radiant Blanchett makes Charlotte's individual journey from lovelorn lady to independent woman believable and involving, and that's ultimately what counts the most -- even if the destination is less than ideal.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Not a movie, it's a museum catalog of gorgeously rendered portraits and landscapes. What a crashing disappointment.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A frustratingly inert story, a bookend to last year's wooden ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin.''
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50
TV Guide Ken Fox
Armstrong is fortunate to have the luminous Blanchett, who, along with her equally fine supporting cast, helps compensate for what the film lacks.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The story has inherent emotional power, but Jeremy Brock's formula-bound screenplay rarely soars beyond cliches.
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50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's ultimately just numb, a sober wartime romance roused only by Blanchett's intensity and Crudup's passionate swings between righteous anger and moral zeal. The rest is just tired melodrama.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Blanchett, Crudup and Gambon stand above and somehow apart from the absurdities of the screenplay.
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50
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Director Gillian Armstrong drains all the emotional energy out of the people who dot her movie's lovely landscape.
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50
Village Voice Jessica Winter
The narrative is unexpectedly sleepy, excepting the occasional flashy set piece.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The setting and circumstances of the war overwhelm the personal story and diminish the dilemma of the title character's love life.
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50
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Rarely has a movie that looked so good on paper fallen so flat as the aptly named Charlotte Gray. It's not a bad movie. Bad movies have more flavor.
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50
Washington Post Rita Kempley
Those who do go with the fantasy are probably hopeless romantics.
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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.
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40
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Undone by Blanchett's dull, wooden delivery. She's the pap that kills the pulp the rest of the film is bellowing out to be.
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40
New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer
Never rises above the level of a 1950s-era adolescent romance novel.
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40
Variety Todd McCarthy
A bland and dour screen version of Sebastian Faulks' highly engrossing bestseller.
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40
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I never thought that a thoughtful director like Gillian Armstrong would get trapped in such Euro-nonsense, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
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38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
It isn't as ridiculous as this year's other version of a local best seller set during WWII ("Captain Corelli's Mandolin"), but it's arguably even less entertaining.
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30
The New York Times Stephen Holden
The movie works so diligently to convey a spirit of heroic uplift and fails so completely that it feels like a tragic misfire.
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20
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Director Gillian Armstrong turns Sebastian Faulks' pungent novel about World War II into a soporific.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

lia gave it a10:
I Love it.

L cray gave it a 9:
Blanchette is great - very convincing. The story line, although a little "thin", its setting and cinematography is excellent.

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