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By Luis Fernando Galván (195) for En Filme (289) on 19 Dec 2016

McGregor's lack of experience behind camera can be seen in the scarcity of visual resources that replace the vigor of the written language…

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By Lucero Solórzano (126) for Excelsior (313) on 19 Dec 2016

Despite of being disqualified in a certain way by its difficulty to meet expectations and with some deficiencies, mainly in the performances,…

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By Bernard Boo (61) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 Dec 2016

The performances are stilted for the most part, with most scenes feeling melodramatic when meant to be tragic, flat as a pancake when meant…

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By André D (1,970) on 12 Dec 2016

El primer largometraje del actor Ewan McGregor como director consiste en la ambiciosa adaptación de la novela de Philip Roth American Pastoral,…

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By Marcos Gandía (63) for Sensacine (386) on 09 Dec 2016

A film where there is a constant struggle between the original text, the script and the way in which McGregor intervenes but manages to carry…

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By Carlos M (2,069) on 19 Nov 2016

Complicated and contrived…

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By Lenard W (144) on 19 Nov 2016

I will open with this caveat: there is no chance for a movie to exceed the book this movie is based on…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 18 Nov 2016

Ewan McGregor chooses an adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for his first directing gig, and it's not a total disaster,…

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By Veronica W (24) on 18 Nov 2016

Although a simplification of the book this film has an understated style : as if we are with the narrator watching a family go through the…

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By Jamie East (261) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 17 Nov 2016

The care and attention Ewan McGregor has given the film is admirable and he deserves credit for giving it his all, but this is a story better…

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By Marija Djurovic (345) for Cairo360 (405) on 16 Nov 2016

American Pastoral is a strong reminder that not every book is destined to be translated onto the big screen effectively…

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By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 13 Nov 2016

It's a competent production with an intriguing trajectory and unsettling, poignant conclusion, but American Pastoral the movie is, like poor…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 13 Nov 2016

Nothing much happens beyond one defining incident relatively early on…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 13 Nov 2016

There's a crippling lack of emotional depth and honesty - it's hard to decide which is more stridently melodramatic, the bombast of the score…

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By Nick Hasted (66) for The Arts Desk (640) on 11 Nov 2016

Ewan McGregor has been judged unworthy of adapting Philip Roth in the US…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 11 Nov 2016

McGregor's character paradoxically gets too much and not enough…

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By Mark Sommer (24) for Buffalo News (278) on 10 Nov 2016

By mid-film, American Pastoral has all the anticipation of watching water circling around a drain that quickly disappears…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 10 Nov 2016

It is, however, a heartfelt and painstaking attempt at dealing in filmic terms with the complex and ambiguous subject matter of the book…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 10 Nov 2016

A turgid lump of narrative and not much else…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 10 Nov 2016

[McGregor] never does the richly-layered book justice, starting brightly but increasingly flailing as the narrative becomes overwrought when…

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