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44 out of 100

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  • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Max Von Sydow
  • Summary: Set against the backdrop of the national crisis that erupted following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is an elegiac, multi-layered exploration of memory, love and reconciliation on an island in the Pacific Northwest. (Universal Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 31
  3. Negative: 8 out of 31
  1. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Christopher Brandon
    95
    Scott Hicks adapts David Guterson's best-selling novel as if it was poetry.
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  2. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    Reflective, deliberate, building gradually to a climax that left me touched.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    Movies made from serious novels are often ridiculed as unworthy of their sources, but this one may be too worthy -- too reverent, too showy, too earnest.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    The year's most beautiful movie -- and surely one of the dullest.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. SusanF.
    10
    Mesmerizing film- beautifully done - provacative and above all heart wrenching movie.
  2. LunaM.
    4
    The scattered fragments of the story are overwhelmed by the film's weighty, somber, pretentious cinematography and score. Visually poetic and lovingly photographed. But one ponderously slow scene follows another. Snippets of same are then repeated through flashbacks. Over-use of crying babies to dramatize bad news. Plenty of passion and talent were behind the making of this movie, but for me it was too self-conscious, gloomy and (watch as the rain drips drips drips) SLOW.… Expand

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