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Movie Overview
Cast
• Chris Cooper
• James Earl Jones
• Mary McDonnell
Director
• John Sayles
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Matewan (1987)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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A+
"Cinematographer Haskel Wexler contributes greatly to the look and feel of a truly special cinematic achievement."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

5/5
"An old-fashioned movie that will make the hearts of all idealists truly sing."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3/4
"Sayles is a perfectionist with a great ear and eye for historical detail, and Matewan is as rich in it as a film can be."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

"For all of the binary simplicity of the film’s moral structure, the question of violence, its utility or even necessity, is the great ambiguity at the film’s center."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Leo Goldsmith

3.5/4
"marks a turning point in the auteur's career, a transition between a teller of personal tales and a conveyor of universal ones."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

high +2 out of -4..+4
Read review  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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