Beloved has an almost gut-wrenching quality to it. But the same can't be said for the movie overall--it's a noble, ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless.
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This review of Beloved (1998) was written by Keith Phipps and published by The A.V. Club on 18 Jan 2004.
Beloved has generally received mixed reviews.
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