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Brideshead Revisited (2008) - Critic Reviews - Page 2 of 6

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By Simon Weaving (195) for Screenwize (216) on 03 Apr 2009

Slow and beautiful, rather than intense, dramatic and insightful…

Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Kevin Carr (1,610) for 7M Pictures (1,037) on 05 Mar 2009

It still has the high-class dramatic feel you'd expect from something you would have watched on PBS twenty years ago…

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By Ryan Cracknell (408) for Movie Views (286) on 25 Jan 2009

Occasionally interesting, always beautiful and regularly tedious, the film attempts to capture a time and a feeling yet it ultimately fails…

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By Karina Montgomery (580) for Cinerina (549) on 09 Nov 2008

The events in the film felt rushed and overly obvious, as if Harry Potter's adopted parents dressed him in an Ask me about wizardry t-shirt…

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By Evan Williams (98) for The Australian (781) on 31 Oct 2008

Those with warm memories of the BBC television serial in the 1980s will find much in this Brideshead to enjoy…

Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Paul Byrnes (441) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 31 Oct 2008

Even if the material is familiar, even if it has been done well before, there is room in a great book for a new interpretation…

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By Steven D. Greydanus (674) for Decent Films Guide (519) on 29 Oct 2008

It's as if Waugh's story has been filtered through the spiritual blindness of young Charles. The movie sees, but it doesn't understand…

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By Julie Rigg (120) for MovieTime, ABC Radio National (314) on 23 Oct 2008

With all its failings, this is an intelligent, critical film about religious faith, and that in itself is a rare achievement…

Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 23 Oct 2008

Directed by Julian Jarrold from a script by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock, this new adaptation adroitly condenses Waugh's plot while eliminating…

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By David Stratton (799) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 23 Oct 2008

At just over two hours, the film naturally feels a bit cramped and the most interesting elements are given fairly short shrift…

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By Mike Goodridge (67) for Screen International (2,241) on 17 Oct 2008

Evelyn Waugh's greatest novel gets a respectable new film treatment from a team of Britain 's biggest names, although it will inevitably remain…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 17 Oct 2008

Characters have been left out -- certainly inevitable -- but mainly what this lacks is air to breathe, wit, humor, a lightness of touch to…

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By Janos Gereben (77) for Entertainment Insiders (294) on 17 Oct 2008

Thompson's work is especially dazzling because the mean, sanctimonious character is so clearly alien to the actress…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 16 Oct 2008

This revisiting of Evelyn Waugh's novel is successful in part in that it firmly envelops both its characters and us into a cloud of Catholic…

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By Tim Basham (27) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Oct 2008

This glorified soap opera, filled with a higher caste of desperate souls, makes Brideshead worth the revisit…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 02 Oct 2008

For the most part, this is an enjoyable, well made and superbly acted drama, though it drags towards the end and doesn't quite pull off its…

Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 02 Oct 2008

In the end, however, this is a film which though less ambitious than Atonement is very much the equal of The Duchess…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 02 Oct 2008

Lovely if you have the time. But if you have the time you may, I feel, be living in the wrong time…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 02 Oct 2008

Someone once said the only thing worse than nuclear war was Evelyn Waugh. Maybe they'd seen this…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 02 Oct 2008

It isn't at all emotionally involving. Charles Ryder remains a cold fish, and Goode endows him with good looks instead of personality…

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