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By Adam C (1,312) on 04 Dec 2007

I think this film may be a case of a film being based on a book that can not be adapted…

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By David K (1,644) on 02 Dec 2007

Albert Finney gives a stunning performance…

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By Corey C (511) on 21 Nov 2007

Albert Finney is incredible, film tanks as it goes along…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 08 Nov 2007

Succeeds in capturing the novel's sense of doom and gets a tour de force performance from Albert Finney…

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By Ed Q (179) on 04 Nov 2007

An intimate and rather bleak film, elevated by Albert Finney's great drunk performance, and refined direction from John Huston…

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By Jurgen H (28) on 02 Nov 2007

Albert Finney gives an amazing performance as Geoffrey Firmin, a British consulant more or less hiding out in Mexico who is drowning himself…

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By Jennifer D (523) on 02 Nov 2007

Albert Finney plays the most convincing drunk, and he is literally drunk the entire movie. Not one scene sober, now that's a challenge…

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By Roberto R (87) on 31 Oct 2007

A very moving film and pobably the best book adaptation i've seen. Albert Finney plays the best drunken roles ever put on film…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 29 Oct 2007

John Huston's version of Malcolm Lowry's dense, poetic unfilmable book is ambitious but only semi-effective in conveying this cult novel's…

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By Andrew F (1,053) on 27 Oct 2007

Absolutely mesmerizing, I was hooked from the title sequence on. Finney's performance is amazing, and the extras on the DVD are freaking fantastic…

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By Aki K (54) on 27 Oct 2007

A forgotten masterpiece from Huston at the end of his life…

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By Ronald W (146) on 23 Oct 2007

#2 on my list of all time favourite movies…

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By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Oct 2007

Although this voyage into self-destruction won't be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney's towering performance as the…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 13 Apr 2006

A film that is especially impressive for the courage, intelligence and restraint with which it tackles an impossible task...What it can do,…

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By Jack Kroll (152) for Newsweek (1,534) on 05 Feb 2006

Although this voyage into self-destruction won’t be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney’s towering performance as…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 May 2004

The movie belongs to Finney, but mention must be made of Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and Anthony Andrews as his half-brother…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 22 Jul 2003

Captures and conveys the hot music of what some literary critics have called the greatest religious novel of the twentieth century…

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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 Jan 2000

Huston simply films the plot of Malcolm Lowry's modern-day gothic novel, turning a fevered interior vision into a cold, distant, exterior one—a…

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