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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Nov 2018

Willem Dafoe's inspired and heartfelt performance as Vincent van Gogh raises At Eternity's Gate far above standard biopics…

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By Joe Blessing (34) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Nov 2018

Van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) is returned to his human dimensions, by a keen script and wonderful lead performance, while still being held up as…

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By Andrew Lapin (196) for NPR (1,713) on 15 Nov 2018

The lovely new biopic by Julian Schnabel offers a vision of Van Gogh's final days that is at once bold, blissful and deeply sad…

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By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 15 Nov 2018

It's the best Van Gogh biopic ever, and among the most artful films about an artist…

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By Joey Magidson (137) for Hollywood News (128) on 15 Nov 2018

A grueling experience, it's often actively unpleasant to sit through...There were times I'd have contemplated an offer of cutting my own ear…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 15 Nov 2018

By adamantly focusing above all else on van Gogh’s work — and its transporting ecstasies — Schnabel has made not just an exquisite film…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Nov 2018

Dafoe’s work, the look in his searching, despairing eyes, feels beyond conventional acting, using intuition as well as technique to go deeply…

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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 14 Nov 2018

It’s a beautiful visual and spiritual journey through the glorious highs and devastating lows of a brilliant artist who was ahead of his time…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Nov 2018

Does At Eternity’s Gate have anything new or innovative to share about perhaps the most comprehensively documented painter who’s ever lived…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 14 Nov 2018

As the director puts it: “This movie is an accumulation of scenes based on Van Gogh’s letters, common agreement about events in his life…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Nov 2018

If Eternity is hardly a completist portrait — or even a narratively satisfying one, really — it’s still gratifying to watch in other…

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By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Nov 2018

Schnabel's film is not so much about the artist as a journey into his inner being, so we experience the world in much the same blissed-out,…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 12 Nov 2018

This dramatization of the last stages of Vincent van Gogh’s life, directed by Julian Schnabel and starring Willem Dafoe as the ill-fated…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Big Apple Reviews (55) on 10 Nov 2018

An imaginative look at one of the world's greatest post impressionist painters…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 08 Nov 2018

Schnabel’s dream portrait of van Gogh is made whole by its star, Willem Dafoe, whose radiant intensity fills every corner of the film…

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By Lauren Humphries-Brooks (64) for Citizen Dame (14) on 22 Oct 2018

What this film is really about is trying to use cinema to approximate the experience of being Vincent Van Gogh…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for National Review (314) on 18 Oct 2018

If Schnabel, the director of one of the few truly sublime films released this century, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is a shaky writer…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 17 Oct 2018

Schnabel celebrates the art while making its maker a tragic crackpot whom we can ogle in this snooty tragedy porn, stroking our own egos for…

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By Matthew Dougherty (34) for The Filtered Lens (17) on 14 Oct 2018

Defoe gives an appropriately huge performance as the film's subject, serving as a reminder that, while he may not give the most nuanced performances,…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 14 Oct 2018

The pacing is off and some parts could put an insomniac to sleep. However, stick with the film, and your stamina will be rewarded…

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