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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 09 Oct 2013

Hanks blends in with the large Captain Phillips ensemble beautifully, emphasizing that the real star of Captain Phillips is the remarkable…

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By Anders Wright (338) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 09 Oct 2013

Captain Phillips almost feels tailor-made for Greengrass' kinetic style…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 09 Oct 2013

Captain Phillips is so insular, so locked in the littleness of its narrative, that it never achieves the kind of heartbreak epiphany of the…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Oct 2013

If it's not the director's best work, in comparison to that of others it's still a potent piece of fact-based drama…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 09 Oct 2013

Basically, this is a crime story that slowly builds to a very good second half, and a drama with a fine performance at its heart…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Oct 2013

Captain Phillips functions most as a handsomely, elaborately produced hardware movie that satisfies in both its details and the sustained suspense…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 08 Oct 2013

Although Captain Phillips is primarily a rousing thriller, it succeeds most when it adds an undercurrent of discomfort…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Oct 2013

A great many filmmakers — too many — use handheld cameras to evoke a sensation of raw, this is really happening immediacy…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 08 Oct 2013

No other film I have seen this year has the sort of visceral gut-wrenching terror and deep, complex humanity that Greengrass brings to Captain…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 08 Oct 2013

Mr…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for Associated Press (1,685) on 08 Oct 2013

What Greengrass excels at is action - taut and visceral - and it happens as soon as the captain suddenly looks at a screen and sees two small…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Oct 2013

This a quasi-war movie set in peacetime; these men are fighting to the death, but not for nation or principle or ideology — or at least,…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 08 Oct 2013

With Captain Phillips we get a viable thriller whose conclusion is already known, and a character who reacts to circumstances rather than a…

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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 08 Oct 2013

The action flows thick and fast, but so much of what drives the film happens beneath the surface…

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By Cameron Meier (130) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Oct 2013

Despite some unexpectedly great performances by the novice actors playing the Somali pirates, especially group leader Muse (Somali-native Barkhad…

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By Joanna Langfield (398) for The Movie Minute (398) on 07 Oct 2013

Can an American hero have any greater film tribute than to have Tom Hanks play him…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 07 Oct 2013

An exciting, realistic ride, but there's an obvious effort being made to make it so much more, and that's where the movie underwhelms…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 07 Oct 2013

Director Paul Greengrass remains a genius of claustrophobia, yet his better films — Bloody Sunday, United 93 and The Bourne Ultimatum —…

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By Will Leitch (411) for Deadspin (356) on 07 Oct 2013

There is no triumph, no victory…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 07 Oct 2013

Captain Phillips works precisely because Hanks isn't a muscle-bound, gun-toting figure (nor does he turn into one during the course of the…

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