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By Michael Dequina (1,684) for TheMovieReport.com (1,582) on 05 Dec 2004

A messy mélange of action, adventure, sci-fi, romance, horror, and comedy…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 22 Jun 2004

An antithesis of how The Terminator handled time travel…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 07 Mar 2004

Bruce Willis is bruisingly good as the hero and Brad Pitt is suitably zany as the activist who dogs his trail…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

There's always overripe method to his madness, but in the new 12 Monkeys Mr. Gilliam's methods are uncommonly wrenching and strong…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 10 Mar 2003

Gilliam keeps the audience guessing, and in doing so creates a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked…

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By Kevin N. Laforest (610) for Montreal Film Journal (589) on 09 Sep 2002

The more I see this film, the more I'm impressed by it. I love movies that are rich and complex, filled with different layers of reading…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Feb 2001

In a movie in which time travel is used to rectify the past, it's too bad scriptwriters David and Janet Peoples didn't go through the time/space…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Feb 2001

Willis and Pitts's performances, Gilliam's atmospherics and an exhilarating momentum easily outweigh such trifling flaws…

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By Terrence Rafferty (56) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 05 Nov 2000

But finally the film is no more than a flamboyant curiosity, replacing the spooky obsessiveness of La Jetée with a much tamer kind of weirdness…

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By Keith Simanton (11) for Film.com (1,892) on 01 Jan 2000

At one point Cole says that viewing the past is like watching a good movie, 'Every time you see it it's different, because you're different…

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By Scott Rosenberg (28) for Salon.com (2,725) on 01 Jan 2000

To Gilliam's quiver of attributes this new movie adds a quality that's on the endangered list in today's Hollywood: coherence…

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By Tom Keogh (466) for Film.com (1,892) on 01 Jan 2000

This film hits a nerve a lot more effectively than either the director's Brazil or The Fisher King…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 01 Jan 2000

A movie that is about as much fun to watch as getting your teeth pulled…

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By James O'ehley (345) for Sci-Fi Movie Page (492) on 01 Jan 2000

It has a story -- and a good one at that -- with characters one cares about and isn't just a flashy display of what today's special effects…

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By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 01 Jan 2000

I'm pleased beyond words to find a movie that cares deeply for its characters even as they fall under the wheels of destiny, instead of killing…

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By Peter Stack (261) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Jan 2000

A grandiose cinematic invention, cleverly turning the present-day urban American world on its ear…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 01 Jan 2000

One of the qualities that makes 12 Monkeys so good is the fact that it is almost too complicated to explain…

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By John Hartl (735) for Film.com (1,892) on 01 Jan 2000

In some ways, 12 Monkeys is the end-of-the-world thriller that Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days wanted to be…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 06 Jun 1999

For all his daring, the brazen creator maintains control - there's aesthetic order in the disorder, and calculated reason in the madness…

Review of Twelve Monkeys (1995)

By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Dec 1995

[Gilliam] turns a world falling apart into a funky, dizzying spectacle…

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