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Pandaemonium
USA Films

Pandaemonium reviews
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Metascore: 60 Metascore out of 100
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9.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for drug content

Starring Linus Roache, John Hannah, Samantha Morton, Emily Woof, and Emma Fielding

This historical, romantic drama chronicles the turbulent, creative relationship between two of history's most famous English poets -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Roache) and William Wordsworth (Hannah). (USA Films)


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Frank Cottrell Boyce  
DIRECTED BY: Julien Temple  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 12, 2002 
Video: February 12, 2002 
Theatrical: June 29, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK 

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90
New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.
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83
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Pandaemonium goes a long way toward capturing the compelling delirium of opium among a crowd of freethinking British iconoclasts.
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80
The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Literate and handsome.
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80
LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.
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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
It's unfortunate and ironic that Temple risks so much so successfully in evoking an atmosphere of literary imagination as well as Coleridge's drug-induced fantasies only to conclude his film in a thud of fustian staginess.
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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.
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63
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Treats the poets not as creative equals but as a groundbreaking genius and a jealous, vindictive hack. Wordsworth is Salieri to Coleridge's Mozart.
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50
Variety Dennis Harvey
Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.
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40
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.
40
Village Voice Jessica Winter
The exposition is thick, the characterization choppy, the wigs terrible.
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38
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."

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