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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Apr 2017

Weighed down by the worthiness of its intentions, The Promise is a big, barren wartime romance that approaches the Armenian genocide with too…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 19 Apr 2017

The Promise may not be the greatest movie of its type since Hotel Rwanda, but purchasing a ticket to this solid if predictable movie is a sure…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Apr 2017

Only Bale’s man-of-action reporter comes across as a personality rather than a statistical composite…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 19 Apr 2017

Too glossy to truly immerse audiences in the horrors it depicts…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 19 Apr 2017

The awkward love triangle feels forced and unnecessary and distracts from and dilutes the power of the historic drama…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 18 Apr 2017

There’s simply no time for the impact of anything that happens to get its reflective due, because the movie is too busy reverting to the…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 17 Apr 2017

The Promise, despite its battles, its vivid recreation of the last days of Constantinople (renamed Istanbul), its historical sweep,despite…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Apr 2017

The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle…

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By Joseph Falcone (12) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 22 Sep 2016

Stagnant, contrived, and oh so boring, The Promise is nothing but a perfectly good waste of Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac’s towering abilities…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Sep 2016

There’s something rather dusty about The Promise as George pushes his characters through a string of soapy machinations that feel incredibly…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Sep 2016

If George set his sights on capturing the effects of this tragic stain in history rather than love-making, we might have gotten a drama worthy…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2016

The event-stuffed screenplay seems frightened of the running time associated with historical romances, though, excising any occasion for reflection…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 17 Sep 2016

Terry George buries a worthy subject in a stuffy story of unrequited love and selfless heroism that gives off a strong scent of mustiness…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Sep 2016

The events being considered deserve better than a sloggy melodrama in which the tragedy of a people is forced to take a back seat to a not…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2016

Didactic yet generic, The Promise endeavors to educate about a period of recent history that is still unacknowledged by the Turkish government,…

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