- Studio: Magnolia Pictures
- Release Date: Feb 13, 2009
- Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix, Vinessa Shaw
- Summary:
- Director: James Gray
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 33
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Mixed: 5 out of 33
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Negative: 1 out of 33
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100As in a good European film, shots are allowed to breathe. The focus is on character and human emotion. At the same time, the movie shows an American concern for pace and story development. The result is the best of both worlds.
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80Phoenix plays the romantic lead with great intelligence and enormous charm, making his character's conflict utterly believable, and Paltrow positively glows as the radiant shiksa who dazzles him.
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60Director James Gray is best known for hard-edged dramas like "Little Odessa," so it's surprising to find he has such a well-developed romantic side. This isn't your average date-night flick, though.
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38The only possible interest the movie will inspire in anyone comes when Paltrow flashes a breast toward the end, far too late to pump any excitement into an aggressively boring film that gurgles with self-indulgence.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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MasterO10
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BecquerM7I could not help but become engrossed in James Gray
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EdwardK3
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