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83The Legend of 1900 is still fresh; like the dawning of a new age, it feels like an awakening.
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80Visually dazzling, touching and funny.
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80On one level it is highly intimate, yet it is also universal, a modern metaphor for the human condition and the precariousness of life itself.
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80Tantalizingly structured to intrigue us right from the start.
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80An enchanting, staggeringly beautiful epic at sea, is poetry in motion.
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75The sort of movie that both rewards and tries your patience.
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75There is one scene in The Legend of 1900 that is easily worth the price of admission. It finds the ship heeling in an Atlantic storm. In the ballroom Roth plays the piano as it moves and slides in an eerie waltz around the floor.
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75Foggy allegories and misty metaphors.
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70The sense of loss aroused by the film is oceanic.
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70A painstakingly crafted nonrealist story, which doesn't seem to imply anything beyond what it depicts.
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67It's usually a good idea to avoid anything billed as ''a fable,'' but The Legend of 1900 offers almost enough merits to warrant an exception
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63Has moments of great imagination.
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63This one is often more interesting than involving.
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63What could have been an insightful, irresistible movie is instead a simple, self-contained fable, pleasing to look at but meaningless
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63Its protagonist haven't enough emotional substance to carry them through the long, darkly lit introspective sequences.
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63There's a ton of joy in The Legend of 1900 -- but it's laid on so thick that one ends up more numbed than stirred, overcome by one too many Hallmark moments.
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60Good-natured but labored, the film clings to its lone gimmick with increasing desperation.
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60A magic-realistic fable whose lows soon prove as infuriating as its highs are intoxicating.
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60Careening wildly between fairy tale and drama it doesn't know when to call it quits.
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60The material is at heart an intimate allegorical fairy tale about rarefied philosophical concerns.
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58It's a wonderful reminder of the importance of music in the movies.
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50Overacted, overdirected, and overcooked in the usual Tornatore manner, but sheer energy and enthusiasm keep it watchable and listenable most of the way through.
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50A muddled fantasy revolving around a really good cruise ship piano player, doesn''t live up to its title.
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42An intriguing concept, a storybook vision life in the great age of trans-Atlantic travel, a fine Ennio Morricone score and a credible performance by Roth.
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40A sumptuous ride with breathtaking scenes and a soaring musical score.
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40But it tries to be (many) things -- and fails at them all.
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38It doesn't strike a single note of authentic emotion.
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25The schmaltz is relentless in The Legend of 1900, the newest film from "Cinema Paradiso'' director Giuseppe Tornatore. It comes in waves, it leeches onto every surface and it turns decent actors into sticky-sweet fuzzballs.
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JohnC.10Great movie Great music.
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PeterM.10The greatest film of all time.