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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 28 Feb 2006

For all its darkness and tragedy, Monster's Ball is a film that wants to be liked and Forster stumbles over his good intentions to win the…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 04 Jul 2005

When a movie wrenches you with the deaths of children then leaves you with nothing to take home but your confusion, it can make you thirsty…

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By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Dec 2004

Forster makes us too intimate with these characters. But, heavy-handed and derivative as it is, its lead actors strike some resonant chords…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 19 Oct 2004

The movie holds you in thrall from first frame to last. Hatred is hatred unslaked. So is racism, ugliness, love, lust and sorrow…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 12 Sep 2004

This is as anti-Hollywood a film as I have seen in recent months, one which takes conventional plot ideas and uses them not to season a melodrama,…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 12 Mar 2004

In its exploitation of human misery, Monster's Ball doesn't just invite cynicism; it provokes hostility…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Dec 2003

Hank is but the latest of Thornton's strikingly taciturn characters in a whole string of movies, but for Berry, Leticia represents a big-screen…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 20 Jun 2003

The film's elliptical character development sometimes renders the actors' work opaque; restraint is an underpracticed virtue, but even it can…

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By Caroline Westbrook (97) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 02 Mar 2003

Forster's poised direction, as well as powerful turns from Billy Bob Thornton and the Oscar-winning Halle Berry, make this compelling viewing…

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

Thornton and Berry show us what acting is in this movie…

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By Wesley Lovell (690) for Cinema Sight (678) on 29 Jan 2003

Halle Berry turns in an amazing performance…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 20 Oct 2002

Much of the film works, performances all around are better than the script, and the whole (especially the first part) is well directed by Marc…

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By Mark Palermo (504) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 25 Aug 2002

In a movie season already nourished with tales of domestic despair, Monster's Ball is the most complex, naturalistic, and sympathetic…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 25 Jul 2002

It's a film in which complex issues are boiled down to human essences, not so much simplified as dramatized in the very best way…

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By Jason Clark (86) for Matinee Magazine (292) on 13 Jun 2002

Marc Forster's downbeat Southern drama really is a low-rent version of Carl Franklin's powerful One False Move…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 06 Jun 2002

There is so little love in this movie - it's really depressing…

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By Pablo Villaça (1,590) for Cinema em Cena (1,589) on 29 May 2002

A Última Ceia mergulha sem reservas no triste universo de seus protagonistas, retratando-os de forma honesta e, justamente por isso, despertando…

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By Collin Souter (180) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 May 2002

Halle Berry, of all people, gives one of the year's strongest performances…

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By Jorge Avila Andrade (300) for Moviola (300) on 06 May 2002

Estupenda muestra de lo que se puede lograr con una historia que muestre a las personas como lo que son: seres humanos en busca de su realización…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 23 Apr 2002

An intense drama that trusts its characters and lets them move freely amongst themselves and react honestly to the situations in which life…

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