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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 12 May 2001

Reiner captures just the right level of physical tension, but for the most part wisely emphasises the mental duels. Terrific…

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By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Jan 2000

A weak handshake of a movie, it is slightly repellent -- hardly gripping, much less knuckle-whitening…

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By Chris Hicks (618) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

The result is arguably the best King novel-to-film adaptation yet, a tense character study that grows and builds and has plenty of humor, both…

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By Christopher Null (908) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 01 Jan 2000

Not only is Misery the best adaptation of a Stephen King book ever made, it's the only good one ever made…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 01 Jan 2000

Reiner seems to have been gambling very heavily on Kathy Bates's performance to set this film apart and make it a Reiner film…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000

It is a good story, a natural, and it grabs us…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for Time (1,811) on 10 Sep 1998

The actors are supported by the best kind of writerly craft and directorial technique, the kind that refuses to call attention to itself, never…

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By Philip Thomas (21) for Empire (3,446) on 29 Aug 1998

There are a few holes in the plot, mainly towards the end, but from start to harrowing finish, it is blissfully apparent that Rob Reiner can…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Oct 1996

James Caan is excellent as the writer and Kathy Bates is brilliant as his captor…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Jun 1996

The economy of both script and direction is admirable—there's no wasted motion in sight—though the film's anthology of genre cliches ultimately…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for The Guardian (2,969) on 16 May 1995

Reiner’s film, the perfect 90-minuter, is sometimes a little stretched at 107 minutes…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Feb 1995

Like any good work of popular culture, Rob Reiner's film of Stephen King's best-selling book Misery functions on more than one level…

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By Bill Cosford (281) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 22 May 1994

It seems to want to be a Hitchcockian kind of cat-and-mouse suspense melodrama, which demands a lot more ingenuity than Mr. Reiner or Mr…

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By Harper Barnes (46) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 26 Feb 1994

In the Kill the Bitch tradition of FATAL ATTRACTION, this adaptation of Stephen King's misogynist fable about a serious (male) author trapped…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 Nov 1990

Kathy Bates has a gift for playing cheerily hostile, paranoid misfits…

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