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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 10 Jan 2006

Ledger is extraordinary here, so still and constant and beaten…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for Charlotte Weekly (185) on 10 Jan 2006

Lingered with me for days, though more for its noteworthy performances and breathtaking cinematography than for its divisive same-sex subject matter…

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By Mark Sells (183) for Oregon Herald (104) on 09 Jan 2006

Lee strips away all the pizzazz for something that is much more pure - a rough and tough emotional journey…

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By Alan Dale (91) for Blogcritics.org (91) on 09 Jan 2006

[T]he movie plays like any soap opera about a love that cannot be--the weeper mechanism is entirely familiar from hetero movies…

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By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (528) for Goatdog's Movies (527) on 08 Jan 2006

Ledger carries the film. His performance is a symphony of reserve…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 07 Jan 2006

[C]hange the names and genders as you wish. This is the sort of adult drama that people can relate to if they have any sort of romantic regrets…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 07 Jan 2006

Reasonably effective portrayal of gay love, but with the regulation unhappy ending…

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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 07 Jan 2006

Director Lee, whose movies range widely through history and around the world, gives this one the heartsick, soulful ring of truth…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 07 Jan 2006

The whole movie is a rich, spacious, passionate way of showing, not telling, feelings that dare not speak their name -- and doing so with superb…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 06 Jan 2006

Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold…

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By Lee Grant (9) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 06 Jan 2006

When Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are together, it's simply about human beings in love. Two men. Now get over it…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 06 Jan 2006

What really sets the film apart from most movie romances is not its same-sex theme but its visual grandeur and exquisite powers of observation…

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By Jack Garner (583) for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (558) on 06 Jan 2006

One of the most deeply affecting movies of its day…

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By Steve Schneider (315) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 06 Jan 2006

Lee takes a setup that could easily slide into tragic self-parody and instead steers it confidently toward the moving and transcendent…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 06 Jan 2006

An experience as tender and troubling as any you're likely to get - or not likely, if this subject puts you off…

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By Christopher Smith (624) for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (624) on 06 Jan 2006

Begins in a picturesque nowhere of tall mountains and big skies, where the only stone wall here is the real thing, with nothing political muddying…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Lawrence Journal-World (273) on 06 Jan 2006

A monotonous and often inadvertently campy romance that rivals The Hours as the most overrated movie of the decade…

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By David Cornelius (645) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 04 Jan 2006

It's a hackneyed, underdeveloped melodrama disguised as serious art house fare…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 04 Jan 2006

It's that it's the very powerful, very real love story of two men that gives Brokeback its quality and universality -- and scares the hell…

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By Jordan Hiller (219) for Bangitout.com (219) on 04 Jan 2006

The pain and involvement for audiences experiencing forbidden love on screen rests entirely in the degree with which they can believe in that…

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