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(1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh Page   1   "While the Africans [in Amistad] are tremendously sympathetic, the film maintains a distance from them, granting emotional access instead to the well-intentioned white guys."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs 83/100 "Amistad is a good, but not great film."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine B "Spielberg is the master of telling a visual story, and here he is in top form."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz B+ "Amistad is the kind of movie that makes a tired topic seem fresh and entertaining again."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "Celebrates the holy grail of freedom and how the quest for justice is supported by the spirits of ancestors ."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "Thematically rich, impeccably crafted, and intellectually stimulating, the only area where this movie falls a little short is in its emotional impact."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Spielberg's considerable talent is not quite enough to unearth it"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4 "The whole historical untouchability of a Very Important Film & the incredibly dry nature of the facts was what made this production a lose-lose proposition for Spielberg."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 8/10 "The Jewish Steven Spielberg has now made two stirring films on Black History and one on Jewish History. If he can manage to reconcile tensions between those two communities he will be deserving of more than Oscars."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 2.5/4 "[Spielberg's] cold calculation doesn’t work well with the hot injustice of slavery. Amistad would have been a better film from someone less thoughtful and more emotional..."   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "This is as stark and unsentimental -- in other words, the most unSpielbergian -- a film as I've seen in a long time."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "A true Amistad movie should be a highly emotional tale about the courage and will of the Africans themselves not the American-centered courtroom drama that Spielberg has made."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina B "The essential commitment to freedom is so much a part of the story that, at least in this one brief moment, justice triumphed."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "Falta alma ao filme."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "Dry and dawdling, haphazardly structured, and grindingly obvious."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves A "Steven Spielberg shows the same kind of fire and passion he did in directing Schindler's List as the horror of slavery is laid bare in the crucible of the courtroom."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "Amistad is the telling of an interesting event in American history, but doesn't draw its audience in to the heart of the story."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B+ "As with Schindler’s List, Spielberg allows his subjects to be remote and somewhat unknowable human beings, creating an air of documentary-like authenticity."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Dragan Antulov  (1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh Page   1