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By Wesley Lovell (690) for Cinema Sight (678) on 04 Jan 2007

An involving look at the life of an emperor forced to give up all that he knew only to realize he never had everything he wanted…

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By Brian Case (8) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

John Lone is superb as the sad mediocrity; and if spectacle finally triumphs over sympathy, it is not without a decent struggle…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Aug 2004

It's a tribute to the film's intelligence and its feeling for dialectics that it views both the Forbidden City and the detention center as…

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By Giala Murray (4) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 18 May 2004

The small screen doesn't quite do justice to the rich visuals but with an incredible story and fine performances, it is still a compulsive…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Apr 2004

There's no doubting its spectacular richness and heartfelt, deeply satisfying storytelling…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 18 Jul 2003

Both an eye-opening epic and an intimate portrait of a man who never really tastes the joys of freedom…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

The Last Emperor is like an elegant travel brochure. It piques the curiosity. One wants to go. Ultimately it's a let-down…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 27 May 2001

a big, beautiful film that suffers only from an indifferent transfer to DVD…

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

Everything involving the life of Pu Yi was a waste. Everything except one thing: the notion that a single human life could have infinite value…

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

We need more than elegant parallels and lavish production values. We need tension, characterization, drama…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 01 Jan 2000

Bertolucci's gorgeous and seductive The Last Emperor imbues this powerless and constantly thwarted figure with a resolute if melancholy grace…

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By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 01 Jan 2000

While it is a long film with slower moments, the parallel personal and political stories are compelling enough to keep the viewer interested…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 01 Jan 2000

The best I can say for it is that it is a smart epic, and I think it will age very well…

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

It is quite a good film, but it is in some ways very flawed…

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By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 1995

The Last Emperor is like an elegant travel brochure. It piques the curiosity. One wants to go. Ultimately it's a let-down…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for Time (1,811) on 27 Mar 1995

Bernardo Bertolucci's visually ravishing spectacle about the life of Pu Yi is a genuine rarity: a blockbuster that manages to be historically…

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