- Starring: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peņa
- Summary: The unearthing of human bones and a rusty sheriff's badge on a rifle range in a Texas border town resurrects painful memories for a young lawman (Cooper), drawing him into an intricate, fascingatingly woven web of ethical, familial, and intercultural conflicts.
- Director: John Sayles
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Romance, Western
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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100The performances are uncommonly fine...Lone Star isn't built to ride trends. It's built to last.
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50The script is a tidy work of carpentry, in several time planes and with a tart finish. Tense moments abound, fights and shootings and near-drownings, but they seem items drawn from casework files. [5 Aug 1996, p.26]
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30Sayles speaks the language of cinematic formula so automatically -- his reunited lovers slow dance to a jukebox in a dark, deserted cafe and wait unannounced outside each other's workplaces when they want to talk -- that he's forgotten that real people don't do this stuff.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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DeusaV.9It´s a beautilful film, I recommend!!!! Several stories and also flashback. Actors are very good. I had a good time.
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