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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 07 Mar 2013

[A]s a concise reduction of history, the movie does get at some truth. As an involving piece of storytelling, though, it's lacking…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 07 Mar 2013

The facts might be right, or at least mostly right, but the film is polished to the point of distraction…

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By Craig Seligman (44) for Bloomberg News (117) on 07 Mar 2013

Fox gets most of the screen time but has the misfortune to be acting opposite Tommy Lee Jones as the preening and crafty MacArthur…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Mar 2013

The war crimes and romance stories theoretically run on parallel tracks, but the overall pacing is ragged and the dialogue frequently out of…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 07 Mar 2013

In the end, probably the best way to watch Emperor is to pretend that the Supreme Command of Allied Forces in Japan after World War II was…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 07 Mar 2013

Call this one Hirohito's Hyde Park on Hudson, as another complex and intriguing piece of history is overshadowed by an inconsequential love story…

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By Joel Arnold (26) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Mar 2013

So it seems like the next logical step in telling a story with a relationship to truth might be that if you're going to fudge things, at least…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 07 Mar 2013

Only near the end, when MacArthur and Hirohito meet in person, do we get fireworks…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 07 Mar 2013

A powerful and thought-provoking drama about war. peace, and the challenges of cross-cultural understanding…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 07 Mar 2013

Emperor starts slowly and peters out from there…

Review of Emperor (2012)

By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 07 Mar 2013

This potentially interesting dilemma becomes thoroughly dull in the hands of director Peter Webber, who stages endless conversations about…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 07 Mar 2013

There is nothing wrong with Emperor that a little more Tommy Lee Jones can't cure…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 07 Mar 2013

It's almost too bad, then, that MacArthur and Jones take a back seat to the far less interesting Gen. Bonner Fellers in the stolid drama Emperor…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 07 Mar 2013

There’s far too little of MacArthur’s strutting on display. Granted, that’s not the movie Webber was making. But you kind of wish it was…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 07 Mar 2013

Director Peter Webber (“Girl With a Pearl Earring”) fills the film with conciliatory emotion and jarring vistas of post-atomic landscapes…

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By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 07 Mar 2013

When it stops preaching, the film is on surer footing, even if for a drama in which peace hangs in the balance, the stakes never seem very high…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Mar 2013

Fact trumps fiction in Emperor, a flawed but fascinating look at Japan immediately after World War II…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 07 Mar 2013

This true-ish story adds a romantic subplot to the prosecution of Japanese war criminals by American general Douglas MacArthur, but neither…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Mar 2013

This one's likely to vex both history buffs and those who require some drama with their drama…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Mar 2013

As is the case with most of the elements in Emperor, the cliches are relatively few and spaced apart, and the tearjerking and profound moments…

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