Possession
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings
- Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Northam
- Summary: Set in the present day, this is the story of two poetry scholars (Eckhart, Paltrow) who discover that the subjects of their studies were secret lovers. As they research the mysterious relationship, they develop a romance of their own.
- Director: Neil LaBute
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Positive: 12 out of 34
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Mixed: 18 out of 34
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Negative: 4 out of 34
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90LaBute, in his infinite and marvelous wrongness, infuses his movie with a delicacy of feeling that couldn't be more right for the material. LaBute obviously approached the project with his hands and his heart open: Frame by frame, it's a humble picture, a movie that isn't afraid to be an entertainment.
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80Maud and Roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story, but LaBute pulls off a neater trick in Possession: He makes language sexy.
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60Ultimately comes off as so restrained as to be detached and almost as chilly as LaBute's darker films -- not exactly what one would want from a story about a love so strong that it echoes through the ages.
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30Neil LaBute’s Possession is bad, but not spectacularly bad, which is disappointing.
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Positive: 5 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Negative: 2 out of 9
