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  • Starring: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis
  • Summary: Brad Pitt stars in the soaring adventure and incredible true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who is transformed by his friendship with the young Dalai Lama.  (Sony)
  • Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Runtime: 136 min
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    80
    This moving story is full of breathtaking compositions, gorgeous spectacle, and inspiring philosophies articulated by sympathetic figures.
  2. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Dwight Garner
    60
    The bad news is that Pitt, despite this film's high-minded intentions (there are Yo-Yo Ma cello solos on the soundtrack, and China expert Orville Schell acted as an advisor during the shoot), or more likely because of them, finds himself trapped in a long, earnest movie that fails to ever feel very alive.
  3. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    10
    Seven Years in Tibet feels more like Seven Days in the Movie Theater. It refuses to come alive--not even when Brad Pitt, hirsute as a yak, wanders the frozen Himalayas with an Austrian accent that probably gave his dialogue coach hives.

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