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79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
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76
Stuff and Dough
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Young@Heart
75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
Tuya's Marriage
72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
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70
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69
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69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
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67
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67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
67
Jellyfish
66
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66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
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64
Son of Rambow
64
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63
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63
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
63
Body of War
63
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62
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62
Battle for Haditha
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
61
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61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
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58
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58
Fall, The
58
Hats Off
58
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57
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57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
Cashback
54
Mister Lonely
52
Noise
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
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48
Dark Matter
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Penelope
47
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47
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46
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46
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45
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
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44
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44
Chaos Theory
43
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43
Favor, The
41
Funny Games
40
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37
Life Before Her Eyes, The
35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
17
Prom Night
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xx
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xx
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Charlotte Gray
Warner Bros.
FILM:
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 |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Charlotte Gray is not a subtle movie, but it is an honorable and surprisingly gripping one.

80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Lush, even juicy entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Not a movie, it's a museum catalog of gorgeously rendered portraits and landscapes. What a crashing disappointment.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A frustratingly inert story, a bookend to last year's wooden ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin.''

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.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The story has inherent emotional power, but Jeremy Brock's formula-bound screenplay rarely soars beyond cliches.

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.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Blanchett, Crudup and Gambon stand above and somehow apart from the absurdities of the screenplay.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Director Gillian Armstrong drains all the emotional energy out of the people who dot her movie's lovely landscape.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The narrative is unexpectedly sleepy, excepting the occasional flashy set piece.

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.

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.

50
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Those who do go with the fantasy are probably hopeless romantics.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Charlotte Gray, for all Blanchett's radiance and intelligence in the title role, is a bore.

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.

40
New Times (L.A.)
Jean Oppenheimer
Never rises above the level of a 1950s-era adolescent romance novel.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A bland and dour screen version of Sebastian Faulks' highly engrossing bestseller.

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.

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.

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.

20
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Director Gillian Armstrong turns Sebastian Faulks' pungent novel about World War II into a soporific.


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