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85 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critics

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  1. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    100
    Sokurov, who also acted as director of photography, films the character and his surroundings with the eye of a newly arrived visitor to another world.
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  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: J. Hoberman
    90
    Though he successfully humanizes Hirohito, who is shown happily shedding his divinity, Sokurov doesn't entirely exonerate him. He contrives a shock ending that, as measured as everything else in this engrossing, supremely assured movie, acknowledges one last blood sacrifice on the emperor's altar.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    90
    The movie is best understood not in banal docudrama terms but as an impressionistic portrait of a man who, stripped of power, is revealed as grotesquely human.
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