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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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By Graham Fuller (154) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 30 Apr 2014

The serious tone of director Amma Asante’s film goes far in undercutting any gloss…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 30 Apr 2014

It appropriates the language of frivolous costume dramas to sneak in passionate politics…

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By Rex A (227) on 30 Apr 2014

I am Down open going see this movie with my Mom…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 30 Apr 2014

The layered film's blend of Austen-style romance, courtroom drama and historical look at the British slave trade works surprisingly well, though…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 30 Apr 2014

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 29 Apr 2014

Belle takes the world of Jane Austen - of landed gentry, courtship rituals and brocaded gowns - and confronts this society with the horrors…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Apr 2014

Like Downton Abbey but with corsets, culottes, and tricorn hats, Belle subtly skewers the absurd rules and hypocrisies of class…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 29 Apr 2014

Stirring film, capable of moving you even as it gives you a new perspective from the past on an issue that continues to plague us, here in the future…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 29 Apr 2014

Elegant and understated, Belle is a true story about the effects of slavery on 18th-century England, told in the style of a sweeping romantic…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Apr 2014

If you were wondering what “12 Years a Slave” might have been like as a two-part episode of “Masterpiece Theatre,” you might want to…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 Apr 2014

Closer to a special episode of Diff’rent Strokes than to 12 Years a Slave, the movie seems to exist to give its white characters belated…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Apr 2014

There's a great story here, but Asante — who has made one previous feature, the 2004 drama A Way of Life — can't quite harness its power…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 28 Apr 2014

Beautifully cast, touchingly played and handsomely mounted, Belle is as close to perfect as any costumed romance has a right to be…

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By Vadim D (535) on 28 Apr 2014

I saw this brilliant documentary last Sunday. This is one of the two or three best documentaries I have seen(of many)…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2014

The film is concerned largely with intellectual horrors and portrays the fight against slavery rather neatly as a growing feeling of internal…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 22 Apr 2014

A stunning piece of historical fiction conveying the spirit of its times with a riveting performance by its principal actress in the role of…

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