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75This is an amazingly ambitious movie, not so much because of the time and space it covers (a lot), but because Potter trusts us to follow her heroine through one damn thing after another.
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75Though the film falls short of its aspirations, there's something magical about it. It's a poetic look at transience, betrayal, loss and doom.
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75Melodramatic and strangely moving.
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75It feels both big and little, concentrating as it does on the small movements in people's lives and the huge tides of history.
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63A curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused.
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50The imagery is lush, but the story is pretty cornball, with an ending that can only be called pure Hollywood. Only the marvelous Cate Blanchett transcends stereotype.
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50Ricci brings her trademark gravity to the wary Suzie, but Blanchett's role is the dazzler.
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50There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
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50It's a strange and strangely unaffecting little drama -- but played very flat, with no particular emotional impact sought or achieved.
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50While we may like what we see, it's impossible to comprehend what much of it means or why we should care.
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50There's nothing particularly wrong with this whole setup; it's just very by-the-numbers.
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40A thing of beauty. But then so is a cloud and I wouldn't want to stare at one of those for an hour and half.
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40Potter gets the period details right, but the film itself has long since flown off the rails, miring good intentions in rank soap opera.
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40The Man Who Cried is like a Yiddish generational tearjerker told from the perspective of the lost child rather than that of the bereaved parent.
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40It's hard to be drawn into a movie if you're never entirely sure what it's supposed to be about, other than about 100 minutes.
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38The result is a movie that talks big, even walks big, but has no scale whatsoever.
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38It's a thinly disguised lecture about intolerance, spotted with historical inaccuracies and groaning with dialogue so dreadful that it makes a fine cast look ridiculous again and again.
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30There is even less going on between Ricci and Depp here than there was in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," mostly because Potter gives them nothing to play.
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30Sally Potter, who leapt to critical attention with her 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" -- makes a serious misstep with The Man Who Cried.
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20The film's a vacuous bore.
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20A star ensemble is preposterously miscast.
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20The driving drama of such a desperate situation is lost in the movie's casting silliness.
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