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By Antonia Quirke (220) for Financial Times (1,822) on 21 Apr 2010

An intoxicating film with a wonderful sincerity, Agora is a sword-and-sandals thriller that relishes the temples, scandals and religious upheaval…

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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Radio Times (2,421) on 21 Apr 2010

The real triumph of the film - apart from a beautifully shot, grand-scale recreation of Alexandria - is how it illustrates the vital importance…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 21 Apr 2010

Fans of historical dramas may love it, but you're in trouble when theories about the sun and earth are more involving than the interpersonal dramas…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 31 Mar 2010

It's a vivid way to contextualize Hypatia's astronomical musings, but it's kind of out there, too…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 Nov 2009

The result is an interesting but often frustrating effort by the director of The Sea Inside, who proves that ambition and talent aren't enough…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Oct 2009

A bit of a puzzle…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 17 Sep 2009

terminally uninvolving virtually from start to finish…

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By Barbara Goslawski (26) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 09 Sep 2009

Behind the pomp and circumstance of the film's spectacle, Amenábar carefully organizes the dramatic details to prove that a marriage between…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Sep 2009

Amenabar's take on the Hollywood epic is admittedly flawed, but it centers on an interesting, rare protagonist, a female scientist who's not…

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By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Jul 2009

What's missing is a satisfying, plausible middle ground where heady ideas and metaphors coalesce into compelling drama…

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By David Gritten (155) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 21 May 2009

It's an odd, uneasy mixture of sword-and-sandals epic and high-minded moral debate, but it's shot beautifully and there's no denying its ambition…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 17 May 2009

Agora occasionally hints at the interesting material embedded in its central conceits, but never manages to enliven it…

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