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OFCS Rating: 66% Fresh |
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3.5/5 | "Una digna obra, con un suspenso magistralmente llevado, que se gana por completo la recomendación pero que no llega a ser tan buena como prometía." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
8/10 | "A gripping and intelligent political thriller that, unusually for these troubled times, promotes articulation of the jawbone over kneejerk reflex." |
| Movie Gazette |
| Anton Bitel |
8/10 | "Both a nostalgic tribute to the nail-biting big-picture mind-benders of days past and a perfectly engaging piece of entertainment.
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| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "The Interpreter is a smartly mounted thriller that seizes the moment it hits the screen, and takes the audience for quite a sharp, taut ride." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
2.5/5 | "Imagine Penn forlornly scouring Iraq in search of WMDs and you'll get a sense for his approach to playing his Secret Service agent" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
B | "Much ballyhooed for its on-location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan "The Interpreter" works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from" |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "While The Interpreter allows for smart performances by all actors involved, it also allows personal trauma to displace the genocide." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
B+ | "Smart moviemaking win out over dumb politics in “The Interpreter,” the latest – and thus far the best – thriller of 2005." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "Another international accent from Kidman, another brooding, broken man from Penn, and another taut, tense, political thriller from director Pollack.
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| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
B- | "Well-made but unimportant political thriller." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4/10 | "a film that made their authors feel good, while denying the same experience to the audience" |
| Draxblog Movie Reviews |
| Dragan Antulov |
2.5/4 | "Looks good, sounds good, and is a motion picture that the actors make worth seeing." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2/5 | "(...) Una película menor, con buenas intenciones pero que se olvida poco después de salir del cine." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B- | "This unmemorable thriller has been gussied up real pretty-like with prestigious actors and intelligent dialogue, and darn if it doesn't make a world of difference." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "Pollack thinks six moves ahead and distracts us with further intensity before unveiling his masterful rendezvous with all the major players and a city bus." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B | "If Sydney Pollack's first film since 1999's Random Hearts is uncommonly intelligent, it is also uncommonly sedate." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
C+ | "Stumbles in both content and execution, even though it's certainly more high-minded and smoothly made than the usual run of contemporary action fare." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
5/5 | "One of the best films of the year-it salutes openness and respect for life as antidotes to the use of violence to deal with the uncertainty and insecurity of our times." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "This is a finely balanced and crafted motion picture." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "effectively merges important political issues with mass-market entertainment without canceling each other out" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Moody mix of international politics and inner conflict makes for a thought-provoking thriller -- just ignore the trailer." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
2/4 | "The smart political thriller; a classic breed of cinema that faces permanent extinction thanks to soulless efforts like this one." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
7/10 | "A professional piece of Hollywood diversion, asking for credibility in its straightforward-delivered themes and given credibility by its stars." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
8/10 | "Phew…finally! A solid, top-to-bottom movie coming out of Hollywood that isn’t a remake, a rehash, a TV show, a sequel..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3/4 | "It may not be a perfect film, but it's just nice to see a master at work." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
| "Director Sydney Pollack is more proficient at generating suspense than following through on it." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| John P. McCarthy |
3.5/5 | "full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "It's one of those movies i will struggle to remember the plot of in about 6 months. And that's too bad, because it had such potential." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "...Becomes a little convoluted and long, but the majority of the time I was interested, involved, and only occasionally perplexed by Penn's arbitrariness." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/5 | "There is one thing standing in its way - the United Nations." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
2.5/4 | "Sean Penn’s grumpy and humourless performance is one of the main reasons this otherwise pretty solid picture is ultimately unsatisfying." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "This smart, adult political thriller is the most satisfying movie to be released by a major distributor so far this year...Pollack's best film since 1993's "The Firm"" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2.5/5 | "The real shame of this deeply flawed picture is that it promises so much, then sacrifices the stark, complex interplay of global power and self-interest on the altar of sloppy emotional machinations and the pop-psych grail of closure." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B | "Rather than making The Interpreter about the twists and turns, its focus is the people who don’t know how to read the situation in which they have found themselves." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
3/4 | "Two tense set pieces in the sometimes formulaic film work wonderfully" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "It has the veneer of significance, and that’s really all a Hollywood movie needs these days to be considered ‘serious,’ right?" |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/5 | "It's not a Great Thriller, but it's a more than welcome diversion, and a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
3/4 | "The Interpreter is tense and exciting, but in the end this is more than a thriller. It’s a story about political idealism." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "A watchable, if not always absorbing thriller, thanks to sheer star power and top directing talent." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
C | "A political thriller afraid of politics and bereft of thrills." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
3/5 | "Nothing about The Interpreter strikes us as very original." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "They really don't make 'em like this anymore: tightly wound thrillers with a political relevance that adds newsworthy urgency to the drama and suspense." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
3/5 | "High-class to a fault, and well-cast in every supporting role ... nevertheless burns with a very low flame." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B- | "Like much of director Sydney Pollack's work, its brilliance is more compositional than soulful." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
C | "With all these talented people, somebody should have noticed that the script needed a rewirte, and that it was emotionally distant." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B+ | "...it’s the writing and exemplary supporting cast (and the stunning United Nation locale) that make “The Interpreter” a worthy entry into the political thriller genre" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
2.5/4 | "Pollack becomes so caught up in the machinations of plot that he allows the politics to boil down into simplistic mush." |
| St@tic Multimedia |
| Sean Axmaker |
8/10 | "A taut, timely thriller propelled by international intrigue and global terrorism." |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
1/4 | "Raises the spectre of mass murder just so Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn can have a half-dozen really boring conversations." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 66% Fresh |
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