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Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The overall mood is stately and melancholy, the selective use of color is ravishing, and some of the natural views are breathtaking.
  2. 80
    Kitano's gentle side reigns in Dolls, a gorgeous meditation on love and devotion, but the film's hypnotic tone and beautifully formalized color scheme makes it unlike anything he's done to date.
  3. Reviewed by: Darrin Keene
    80
    The cinematography is stunning, particularly where Matsumoto and Sawoko walk through the four seasons of life.
  4. 60
    Whether this measured exercise in romantic melancholy moves you to tears or bores you to them is probably a matter of personal susceptibility to the sting of bitter regret for love lost.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2

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