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(1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1   8/10 "its boldly atomised narrative, its labyrinthine circularity and its no-nonsense performances make 21 Grams... well worth the weight. "   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 2/4 "A skin-deep achievement that falls apart at the seams"   Film Freak Central   Bill Chambers A- "The actors are magnificent. They unequivocally know who their characters are, inhabiting them so completely that you cease to remember these are actually actors, even stars."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna A- ""21 Grams" commands a running discourse that runs as a constant thematic thread through all of humanity. The movie delivers life as a floating mysterious entity that we all share. It's very few films that achieve anything remotely close."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As 21 Grams has it, the most difficult aspect of "going on" is the lie that must propel it."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/4 "...so stirring, so inquisitive and so uninhibited by the restraints of cinema that it absorbed me in ways that few movies ever have."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3.5/4 "Superb performances by Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts highlight 21 Grams, Alejandro González Iñárritu's electrifying follow-up to Amores Perros."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 4/4 "...the most emotionally devasting movie to come around in a long while..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair A- "Superb ensemble cast."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "[A]n imaginative, heartbreaking film -- one of 2003's best -- that you won't easily forget."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "The film's images are whorishly cluttered with religious iconography and spiritual rhetoric but González Iñárritu hardly allows these codes to mirror a collective humanity’s existential bewilderment."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez "Uno sabe que está ante un gran director cuando para conmovernos no hace falta más que un excelente grupo de actores, una cámara y una buena historia."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "The film tries to sound ponderous in matters of death and fate, but achieves only the level of art-house pretension."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "Plays like a depressing jigsaw puzzle that is both painful and satisfying to assemble."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C+ "The picture...is technically flamboyant in a fashion that catches the eye but actually lessens its ability to touch the heart."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "A deeply spiritual film exploring the ties that bind a heart transplant patient, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con on a journey of guilt, pain, and redemption."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 4/4 "It's one of those motion pictures that haunts your thoughts and won't let go."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "a deeply spiritual film, dealing as it does with the core issues of life and death and the role God plays in them"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "English-language debut from director and writer of Amores Perros has a broken structure but amazing performances."   Netflix   James Rocchi 1/5 "21 Grams thrashes wildly...exhorting us to feel something. Apart from the fleeting satisfaction of its structural parlor game, I felt little...save exhausted boredom."   Los Angeles Alternative   Jay Antani 8/10 "Une oeuvre d'une rare intensité dramatique qui n'a aucunement besoin de suivre un cheminement narratif classique pour susciter une vive réaction chez le spectateur"   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 3/4 "Once it finds its footing, the drama is a searing triptych of devastation and endurance."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 8/10 "Would likely be a chore to sit through were it not for the novelty of the storytelling technique. There's some top-notch acting here ... which is rewarding in and of itself."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 47/50 "The presence of God's (or the director's) grand scheme is so apparent that it undermines the movie's time spent grappling with faith."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 8/10 "This is a great film with superb performances that only helps elevate the material to that even mightier level."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 82/100 "21 Grams achieves its objectives and, despite its flaws, is thoroughly entertaining."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 4/4 "'Iñárritu y Arriaga crean una historia trepidante, poderosa y profundamente humana' "   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 4.5/5 "This is not a film for a passive movie watcher - extremely rewarding and riveting, worth the challenge of the first third."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.5/4 "Pretty solid as an exercise in style but thematically unconvincing."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "Its trinity share enough body and blood for a half dozen Catholic masses."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 7/10 "The shuffled order of the telling is a gimmick, but it is one that works reasonably well and perhaps even works to rivet the viewer's attention."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/4 "Storytelling technique is only the first thing that grabs your attention"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 3/5 "This is an actors' film, and the fragmentation takes away from the power of the performances."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "A very good movie...but I have to be honest about one thing: I don’t know that I would actually recommend this film to anyone. An utterly depressing piece of work."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "A terrible collision shatters more than the lives of three people. It shatters the very narrative of the story itself."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow B "The performances, by and large, outweigh the film's unnecessary metaphorical gunk."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Não é um filme fácil de se assistir (tanto no aspecto emocional quanto intelectual), mas isso não quer dizer que não seja magnífico ao seu próprio – e melancólico – modo."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca "Despite the soap-opera plot and off-putting style, '21 Grams' is, at times, an extraordinarily moving film..."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Iñárritu is dealing with love, grief and revenge in provocative ways that Hollywood would never dream of, avoiding the sermons and obvious morals."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "The structure simply doesn't let any of the characters build an arc of growth or despair."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B "Naomi Watts covers a wide emotional range and is always believable, regardless of what is in the script, and some of what is in the script is very hard to believe."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "The ability to keep the multiplicity of stories and the interconnected timelines as focused as he does gives firm belief that we have a filmmaker well on the road to greatness"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 8/10 "21 Grams is powerfully provocative!"   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 3.5/4 "Editor Stephen Mirrione tries his best to keep the stories together but with Iñárritu's confusing directorial technique."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf B+ Read review   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 8/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Dragan Antulov 8/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 48) of 48 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1