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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Jul 2005

Cuaron is a special talent, and, as botched as Great Expectations often is, it's the kind of failure that deserves an audience--if only to…

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By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 30 May 2005

No doubt about it: Unlike David Lean's much-loved classic, Cuaron's film is loosely based on Dickens. And that's just fine…

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By John R. Mcewen (303) for Film Quips Online (303) on 08 Feb 2003

The film's exectution is more of a tragedy than the story…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 01 Nov 2002

His film doesn't have anything to say, it just wants to make a fashion statement: Pretty people should get to do stuff other people don't get to do…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 01 Mar 2002

The drama has a surface charm and panache that draws out the romantic in all of us…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 16 Sep 2001

Begins as a great movie (I was spellbound by the first 30 minutes) but ends as only a good one, and I think that's because the screenplay,…

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By Daphne Merkin (10) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 06 Dec 2000

This update has to be one of the most ludicrously dumbed-down versions of a classic to date…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Aug 2000

The film is proof that if you repackage the classics (in this case, Dickens) for the youth market in an era of MTV dislocation, what you get,…

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By David Bartholomew (7) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Jan 2000

If this movie were a sandwich, it'd be ham on white bread…

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