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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 11 Oct 2009

Though serious, well-crafted and handsome, lacks most of the pungency of the epitome of the genre, Lawrence of Arabia…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Jul 2009

A handsome epic, a brave-hearted 19th-century man-saga from the director who made the period piece man-sagas ''Glory'' and ''Legends of the Fall…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Dec 2008

There's some cool sword-fighting. But still, it's junk…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 24 Aug 2008

A movie that demands our surrender -- to its energy, to its bold-stroke moviemaking, to its acting (particularly by Cruise and Watanabe, who…

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By Christopher Smith (624) for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (624) on 04 Aug 2007

It's a film at war with itself. Worse, it's a mixed bag of carefully packaged entertainment, with little room for spontaneity or surprise…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon.com (2,725) on 13 Apr 2007

Cruise pedals hard through The Last Samurai, and the exertion shows. In fact, the whole picture is belabored and lumbering…

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By Wesley Lovell (690) for Cinema Sight (678) on 07 Aug 2006

Cruise is wasted on this American samurai tale. The movie is pretty to look at but lacks substance or intrigue…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

Competently mounted in its studiedly immersive, elongated way, Zwick's earnest costume epic dresses a knee-jerk, reactionary sensibility in…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 20 May 2006

Even if you think Cruise has never had a moment of doubt in his life, he makes Nathan's self-loathing palpable, and the character's regeneration…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Threat (5,156) on 06 Dec 2005

Director Edward Zwick has an ace up his sleeve, in addition to all the glorious scenery and pulse-pounding battles, and that’s Ken Watanabe…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 18 Sep 2005

It's not just Hollywood convention that gets in the way of the story, it's the lack of depth, heft and heart at its core…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 27 Jan 2005

one has to take into account is the sheer power of the show, the way The Last Samurai can sweep up the susceptible and the willing…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 02 Aug 2004

Cruise isn't horribly miscast, a la Tony Curtis in The Son of Ali Baba or John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror, but he doesn't miss by far…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 02 Aug 2004

Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic…

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By Joe Utichi (163) for FilmFocus (191) on 19 Jul 2004

It is definitely a treat for the eyes and ears and well worth a trip to the cinema to see…

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By Judith Egerton (151) for Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (151) on 22 Jun 2004

Think of it as Cruise's Dances With Swords…

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By Ross Anthony (612) for Hollywood Report Card (612) on 14 Jun 2004

Passionately directed, cinematically splendid, with a sweetly sympathetic score, all is good save for the roundup…

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By Vince Koehler (156) for Entertainment Spectrum (633) on 25 May 2004

Tom Cruise scores a hit in a great film with action and good story with characters you care about…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 18 May 2004

Less an exercise in Zen montage à la Kagemusha than a slightly more exotic Gone with the Wind, Zwick's epic waits more than an hour to deliver…

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By Joel Siegel (93) for Good Morning America (94) on 08 May 2004

The Last Samurai is another Tom Cruise triumph…

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