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Review of by Daniel Mendelsohn for The New York Review of Books — 20 Aug 2018

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The real achievement of Brokeback Mountain is not that it tells a universal love story that happens to have gay characters in it, but that it tells a distinctively gay story that happens to be so well told that any feeling person can be moved by it.

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This review of Brokeback Mountain (2005) was written by and published by The New York Review of Books on 20 Aug 2018.

Brokeback Mountain has generally received very positive reviews.

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