Mystic River
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User Score
6.3
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 334 Ratings
- Starring: Emmy Rossum, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney, Laurence Fishburne, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
- Summary: As the investigation of the death of a young woman tightens around three old friends, and ominous story unfolds that revolves around friendship, family and innocence lost too soon. (Warner Bros.)
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 37 out of 42
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Mixed: 4 out of 42
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Negative: 1 out of 42
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100Clint Eastwood pours everything he knows about directing into Mystic River. His film sneaks up, messes with your head and then floors you. You can't shake it. It's that haunting, that hypnotic.
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80Echoes Eastwood’s previous exploration of true-life violence, “Unforgiven,” by tracing how death and depravity stain one’s life for generations, leaving seeds to take root in each branch of a tainted family tree.
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60Little more than the distended first half of a twisty, dark "Law & Order" script.
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30The new bad movie from Clint Eastwood which takes Dennis Lehane's best-selling thriller and turns it into an inert mess that clocks in at 137 minutes but feels like 137 hours.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 92 out of 150
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Mixed: 23 out of 150
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Negative: 35 out of 150
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AlexR4wow, I can find some seemingly good aspects about this film if I try, but come on!.. a 10? Award nominations? I just can
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