Brokeback Mountain
Focus Features | Release Date: December 9, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
37
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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60
SlateDavid Edelstein
Brokeback Mountain could use a little more of it--by which I mean more sweat and other bodily fluids. Ang Lee's formalism is so extreme that it's often laughable, and the sex is depicted as a holy union: Gay love has never been so sacred. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Romanticism fights stoicism to a draw, and the movie grows ever more static, too. Down to the quasi-ambiguous hate-crime finish, Brokeback Mountain comes as close to being a still life as you can get with human characters. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPhil Hall
This much-ballyhooed gay cowboy melodrama is an inert disappointment. Read full review
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