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By Bill Newcott (157) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 17 Apr 2016

Great movies nearly always involve a director's galvanizing vision and an actor's willingness to let character drive performance…

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By J. Olson (540) for Cinemixtape (540) on 08 Apr 2016

Hanks is very good in the role - downright fantastic in its final minutes - his everyman persona going a long way in eliciting attachment on…

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By James Plath (543) for Family Home Theater (140) on 02 Apr 2016

Almost from the beginning it's structured like a chess match between Phillips and a Somali pirate (Barkhad Abdi as Abduwali Muse) who feels…

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By Martin Tsai (390) for Critic's Notebook (199) on 07 Oct 2015

But once the pirates are aboard the Maersk Alabama, any semblance of nuance is out the window and into the sea…

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By Donald J. Levit (489) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 30 Apr 2014

As in many films of this genre, fiction or fact, finesse gives way to firepower force, and though the real-life outcome is fixed in advance,…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 21 Apr 2014

About an hour in, though, much hell breaks loose. Greengrass' avid, excitable camera moves begin to match the action, to become the action…

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By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Feb 2014

The script, adapted from the book written by the actual protagonist, is not romanticized or glossed over with overreaching sentiment, and Greengrass…

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By Russell Hainline (20) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 06 Feb 2014

Storytelling in its purest form: it works as a no-fat thriller, yet it achieves nuanced character dimension and thematic complexity…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Feb 2014

[W]e're carried along not just by the momentum of events, but by the precision with which they're depicted…

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By Felix Vasquez Jr. (1,949) for Cinema Crazed (1,907) on 31 Jan 2014

The final scenes alone, make Captain Phillips worthy of being called a masterpiece…

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By Jeff Beck (630) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 20 Jan 2014

While I find it a little strange that it's been getting as much awards attention as it has, it's still worth taking a look at for Greengrass…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 30 Dec 2013

It's a sweaty-palmed, relentless thriller - and a damned good one…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 22 Dec 2013

Not only a riveting drama about quiet heroism, but an eye-opening look at a clash of cultures…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 22 Dec 2013

Captain Phillips is indeed a gripping, grueling, agonizing, nail-biting, brutalizing, kick-punching motion picture, but beyond the technical…

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By Corey Hall (192) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 21 Dec 2013

Tom Hanks gives a fine, un-showy and sublimely focused performance…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Mirror (UK) (1,133) on 21 Dec 2013

It goes from exciting to exhausting mighty quickly and the final act…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 21 Dec 2013

The disappointing aspect to Captain Phillips is that it doesn't go beyond action movie conventions…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 17 Dec 2013

Captain Phillips repeatedly underlines the Navy's brilliance, and also the contest between Rich and Muse, their exchanged looks in a tight,…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 10 Dec 2013

Over and over in this movie we hear variations on the phrase everything's going to be OK…

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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 09 Dec 2013

What Hanks does is give Phillips a thoroughly human portrayal, convincing us how an ordinary man does extraordinary things in the face of death…

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