| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
A "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy of surprising power.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Its pleasures aren't so much in the inevitable plot complications, but in the passion of the performances and the spare beauty of the elegant framing and photography.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Told so simply and powerfully that it seems to carry echoes of earlier, timeless tales.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
With Solomon & Gaenor, it is hard to overlook the folly of the characters. Does it count as a tragedy when the characters get more or less what they were asking for?
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nicely filmed and acted.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Does an almost dismayingly good job of conveying its characters' grim, bare-bones existence and the stultifying sexual and religious taboos that the lovers flout.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
It doesn't lack for emotional intensity or persuasive, three-dimensional characters.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
A graceful, understated sense of period allows the behavior of the characters in this love story to be unusually nuanced, making their experiences seem uncontrived as well as archetypal.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
Has a melodramatic glow.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
It takes us nowhere we haven't been before, except geographically.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Bogs down in a deep muck of inevitability.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
The film is in the key of "Romeo and Juliet," and it's a one-note tune.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
The performances are uniformly excellent.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Well-meaning portrait of intolerance concludes as grand tragic melodrama, executed with a stately beauty in somber colors.
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| 56 |
Mr. Showbiz
Feels repetitive and impacted.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
The landscape and the lovers are pretty to look at, but two households divided should really pack more of a punch.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
First-time writer-director Paul Morrison has a gift for evoking a time and place.
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| 50 |
Dallas Observer
Although Morrison's drama feels increasingly forced and manipulative as the movie rolls along, the movie is competent if painfully predictable.
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| 50 |
Film.com
Jared Rapfogel
There's nothing terribly wrong with the movie, but nothing terribly right about it either.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Tepid tale of star-crossed lovers in 1910 Wales.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Paul Morrison's relentlessly unsurprising staging of a "Romeo and Juliet" story fetishizes its accelerating tragedies with morbid solemnity.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
By the time the heavy-handed Solomon & Gaenor is over, it has become such a punishing exercise in the self-evident that one is left numb and eager for escape.
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