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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 08 Nov 2018

Pike plays Colvin as selfless, but also a woman who would have pitched a drink in your face for calling her that…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Nov 2018

An honest, warts and all portrait of a woman so driven to inform readers of the mad violence in the world that it cost her her own life…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Nov 2018

Finally, one of our finest actresses has been given material that calls on her to utterly transform herself — vocally, physically, seemingly…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 07 Nov 2018

A reporter is never the story — the story is the story…

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By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 07 Nov 2018

There are even times when both the subject and aesthetics of A Private War seem to align accordingly; unfortunately, the film is incapable…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 06 Nov 2018

Pike’s Colvin is brave, but she’s not tough, and, scene by scene, she reveals more and gives more than she probably means to…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Nov 2018

The new film A Private War ranks higher than most, in the truth department and in cinematic storytelling…

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By J.r. Kinnard (152) for PopMatters (2,617) on 06 Nov 2018

Unrelenting, passionate, and churning with humanity, A Private War is a film befitting its remarkable heroine…

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By Leigh Monson (105) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 06 Nov 2018

Pike's stellar work speaks for itself, and thankfully it also speaks on behalf of the film and on behalf of Marie Colvin…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 05 Nov 2018

If Marie's goal was to give a voice to the voiceless, the film based on her work does the same; whenever Syrians come into the foreground reliving…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 05 Nov 2018

Pike plays the hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-living Colvin to the hilt; it's painful to watch what she goes through in this role…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 03 Nov 2018

A Private War makes sure that Colvin's bravery and legacy will never be forgotten…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Nov 2018

A Private War ultimately sides with the late journalist’s assertion that the whos and whys of war matter far less in journalism than finding…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Nov 2018

Feels like the kind of movie that would have been designed for Meryl Streep or Sigourney Weaver back in the day, ragged yet sumptuous, filled…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 02 Nov 2018

As played by Rosamund Pike, Colvin is steely, stubborn, an old-school Fourth-Estater and saltier than the Sargasso Sea…

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By Alan Ng (404) for Film Threat (5,156) on 02 Nov 2018

Colvin’s downward spiral not only sucked the positive energy from her friends and colleagues, but it will take it away from you as well…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 02 Nov 2018

Heineman’s film is, in many ways, the movie so many people say they want: a portrait of a deeply complex, flawed, but brilliant and forceful…

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By Nicholas Bell (55) for IONCINEMA.com (55) on 02 Nov 2018

An onslaught of familiar flashbacks and war montages sometimes reduce A Private War to the usual passive preachiness of such horrors…

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By Michael Ordoña (350) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 02 Nov 2018

War violence, language, nudity in mature biopic…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Nov 2018

The dramatic, personal story of Colvin herself is absorbingly told here, largely because of Pike’s dynamic performance, showing us a woman…

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