Monster's Ball
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69 out of 100

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6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 41 Ratings

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  • Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry
  • Summary: A hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. It is the story of Hank (Thornton), an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia. He begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia (Berry), the wife of a man he has just executed. (Lions Gate Films)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    As for myself, as Leticia rejoined Hank in the last shot of the movie, I was thinking about her as deeply and urgently as about any movie character I can remember.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    80
    The cast is uniformly superb, and Marc Forster's attentive direction gives proper weight to each perplexing emotion. Strip away the strident melodrama, and you have this season's moodiest, most adult love story.
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  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    The film's elliptical character development sometimes renders the actors' work opaque; restraint is an underpracticed virtue, but even it can be taken to excess.
  4. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    30
    When a movie wrenches you with the deaths of children then leaves you with nothing to take home but your confusion, it can make you thirsty for the blood of directors.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 26
  3. Negative: 8 out of 26
  1. BlakeJ.
    9
    The most depressing movie I have ever seen, by far. Halle Berry's performance is mesmerizing. The scene in the hospital brings tears to my eyes, every time I watch it. For some reason, although it brings me down when I watch it, I watch it several times a year.… Expand

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