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89Feels brief and dreamlike. Waking from its spell, you touch your face, and it's wet, but you're smiling anyway.
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100A big, fat old-fashioned gush of passion as drawn through a post-modernist prism that makes it less easily comprehensible but more beguiling.
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100The kind of movie you can see twice--first for the questions, the second time for the answers.
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100It feels like a dream that a movie could have this kind of poetic grace and epic sweep, or could be so faithful to its source and still work so perfectly as a film.
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90Minghella shapes Ondaatje's sprawling story into something miraculously cohesive, and at the movie's center is one of the most compelling love stories in recent memory.
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100Rising to crescendos of emotion usually reached only by tenors and sopranos, these characters are the beneficiaries of the luminous writing of the novel and screenplay as well as the expert performances of the actors, especially Scott Thomas.
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90Astonishingly deep and moving.
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90Succeeds stunningly on its own terms.
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88This is one of the year's most unabashed and powerful love stories, using flawless performances, intelligent dialogue, crisp camera work, and loaded glances to attain a level of eroticism and emotional connection that many similar films miss.
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100Minghella, by brilliantly editing the romantic scenes down to a few jagged, archetypal moments, captures something of the sacred whirlwind.
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100A mesmerizing film that is the most stunning, tempestuous love story in a decade or two of movie making.
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100Minghella is an artist and he has painted himself a masterpiece.
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90The acting of this central trio is brilliant, in part because the crisscrossing of these and other stories and the gorgeous backdrops take some of the weight off: The characters are free to be flawed without losing our interest.
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100Heartbreakingly beautiful film, a brilliant adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's equally beautiful novel, is a sort of Casablanca for our time.
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100A stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph.
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100To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart--this, you realize with a gasp of joy, is what movies can do.
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85The power of the Fiennes/Scott Thomas affair burns through the clutter (imagine "Casablanca" meets "Map of the Human Heart") making The English Patient a theatrical must-see.
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88The big story here is Kristin Scott Thomas' captivating performance.
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100Awash in heart-rending emotions and gorgeous images, this is a movie to lose yourself in.
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100A tour de force so haunting that other films can't exorcise the memory of its radiant cast, exquisite craftsmanship or complex system of metaphors. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a movie.
User score distribution:
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10Great film! Real emotions, real life! Heroes were on the top! Music brilliantly selected!
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