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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 07 May 2014

Treatment like this makes people shrug off reality rather than process it…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 May 2014

This polished and engaging but emotionally gauzy and at times downright frustrating film slugs its way through a lot of dutifully passionate…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 May 2014

Belle is a beautiful period piece, but it's also something more: a study of racism, classism and sexism in 18th-century England…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 May 2014

Belle isn't a perfect movie; in some ways it's obvious…

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By Bruce Ingram (70) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 May 2014

When Asante finally closes with a close-up of Belle’s portrait, there’s something in her eyes and her smile that suggests so much more…

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By Sandra Hall (505) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 06 May 2014

It's fascinating to go into the Inns of Court and watch the landholders and the abolitionists battle it out before the unflappable Wilkinson,…

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By Witney Seibold (272) for Nerdist (550) on 06 May 2014

Belle is a wonderfully moving and impeccably crafted costume drama that lives somewhere in between deep-minded Enlightenment literature and…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 05 May 2014

Using only minor dramatic license, Sagay and director Amma Asante have crafted a historical period romance that tackles racism with all the…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 04 May 2014

[VIDEO ESSAY] The movie synthesizes a wealth of relevant historic elements with wit, romance, and scathing social commentary…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 02 May 2014

It is a credit to Assante that she weaves together the story strands and the emotional arcs so powerfully, giving us insight and empathy as payoffs…

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By Alynda Wheat (54) for People Magazine (358) on 01 May 2014

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is grace itself in a costume drama that may overreach in telling the true story of a mixed-race woman raised in British high…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 01 May 2014

Important, affecting, engrossing drama for tweens and up…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 01 May 2014

Belle does have a clear moral compass, but it refuses easy answers and withholds easy judgments. As such, it feels profoundly human…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 01 May 2014

The movie is intelligently written and well-acted, but it doesn’t sit all that comfortably between the two stools of Austenesque Romance…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 01 May 2014

For audiences in the mood for that sort of safe, old-fashioned storytelling, it delivers some pleasures…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for TheWrap (3,203) on 01 May 2014

Belle's extraordinary intelligence is most evident in its slow but satisfying disentanglement of the jumble of privileges and disadvantages…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 30 Apr 2014

Lots to recommend but there's enough here for two movies and in trying to tell both stories the picture shortchanges each one…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Apr 2014

Belle is greatly buoyed by Mbatha-Raw's performance…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 30 Apr 2014

Director Amma Assante and screenwriter Misan Sagay weigh down everything by introducing portentous melodrama and brittle social dramedy…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 30 Apr 2014

As a period production, Belle is gorgeous, dazzling spectacle, replete with ornate costumes, lovely sets, and in Mbatha-Raw, a striking, charismatic…

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