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By Ross Williams (5) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Dec 2002

None of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 06 Dec 2002

Works better in its various parts than as a whole…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 06 Nov 2002

In old-fashioned screenwriting parlance, Ms. Shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick,' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 05 Nov 2002

Kathryn Bigelow, it's like she's directing two films. They have very distinct styles, and everybody gets their say and gets their moment…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Journal News (Westchester, NY) (178) on 02 Nov 2002

Flat and melancholy, a muted tale of throttled feelings that never builds emotional momentum…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 02 Nov 2002

It's got a good director. Good cast. Good source material. Yet it still sinks like a stone…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 01 Nov 2002

[Bigelow] provides the standard, repressive Victorian melodrama in the old story, while the newer one is merely afloat until a storm rolls…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 01 Nov 2002

A boring, pretentious muddle that uses a sensational, real-life 19th-Century crime as a metaphor for -- well, I'm not exactly sure what --…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Nov 2002

The actors are splendid, especially Sarah Polley and Sean Penn, but we never feel confident that these two plots fit together, belong together,…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Fantastica Daily (363) on 01 Nov 2002

Whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery, unfortunately…

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By Arthur Lazere (236) for culturevulture.net (793) on 31 Oct 2002

If the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals, it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Oct 2002

From the diary of Kathryn Bigelow - Maybe this whole project was some subconscious effort to take shots at the jackasses in my life…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet Sick-Boy (616) on 29 Oct 2002

Intriguing and beautiful film, but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed…

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By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Oct 2002

So murkily executed that the ending is all but indecipherable through the pea-soup…

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By Walter Chaw (1,360) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 09 Oct 2002

Slicked-up jazzy lit-porn: all nice-looking people in various stages of excitement in the room coming and going and talking of Michelangelo…

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By Alex Ramirez (113) for Cinenganos (252) on 11 Jul 2002

El peso de un líquido incoloro, el peso del líquido vital, del amor como elemento de vida, y de muerte…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Jun 2002

Makes its belated arrival sporting the bloated, pruny appearance of something that's been floating aimlessly for longer than anybody cares…

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