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(1 - 50) of 65 OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh Page   12   > Next "[T]he movie plays like any soap opera about a love that cannot be--the weeper mechanism is entirely familiar from hetero movies.... Brokeback Mountain isn't a gay western, it's a gay Back Street."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale "Because 'Brokeback Mountain' has made such a profound impact on so many viewers, I almost feel guilty that I can't rave about it."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker A "...a courageous, transcendent film that may prove to be a landmark down the line in the Hollywood landscape."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark "Ang Lee's best film to date; career best performances of Ledger and Gyllenhaal, amazing score and cinematography and a heartbreaking love story to boot. One word: Wow."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij 9/10 "It's such a slow burn that you likely won't even smell the fire until after it has surrounded you... measured subtlety makes this simple story an emotional masterpiece. "   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens A "Brokeback is an incredible piece of direction, even for Lee, who has made a career out of impressive cinema."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf B+ "An introspective film, but not, thankfully, an inert film. "   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna B- "Ang Lee creates a compelling atmospheric film in spite of the story's obedient propagation of Hollywood's cliché myth that gay people must eventually be punished with lethal violence."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Ennis' lack of language, initially seeming reduced in Ledger's performance to clench-jawed mumbling, is eventually subtler, especially in his relationship with his daughter."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "It's a hackneyed, underdeveloped melodrama disguised as serious art house fare."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A+ "The most important gay film in a decade - a must see."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher "... a beautiful tragedy about the anguish of unfulfilled love. It's an absolute triumph, in every way."   Portland Tribune   Dawn Taylor A "Tells an emotionally powerful forbidden love story with taste and intelligence."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/4 "Profound. Transcendent. Heartbreaking. Brokeback Mountain is a cinematic triumph of incendiary depth and poeticism."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "So much for down and dirty."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 5/5 "Una épica historia de amor narrada con profunda sensibilidad y maestría; gran actuación de Heath Ledger. Tal vez el primer gran clásico del siglo XXI."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio A "Powerful and moving enough to be one of the best films of the year"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "By excessively compensating with how molds are being shattered, many viewers may overlook the fact that the same material could have made using heterosexual protagonists."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3.5/4 "Exquisitely shot and vast in its emotional take on forbidden love, Brokeback Mountain is compassionate and compelling in its risqué examination of perceived manhood."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng A "This story of suppressed passion is, irrespective of gender considerations, a deeply moving, indeed lacerating, film."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "Explores the heartache of two gay cowboys who incarnate the basic human needs for wholeness, fulfillment, and a true love who accepts you as you really are. "   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 4/4 "A rich love poem with boundless soul, Brokeback Mountain is another wonderful gem to be placed atop Ang Lee's filmic mantle."   eCinemaCenter.com   Gabe Leibowitz A+ "The Marlboro Man has reawakened as an archetype fully realized, brimming with ambivalence and complexity."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "It's a brave and affecting effort from a director from whom we have come to expect worthwhile things."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "The first quarter of Brokeback Mountain plays like a silent movie version of Waiting of Godot, but starring two Marlboro Men instead of Vladimir and Estragon . . ."   SA Movie & DVD Magazine   James O'Ehley 3.5/4 "A gallery of worthy performances, crisp direction and a quietly graceful script make Brokeback Mountain something of a landmark in Hollywood's 2005 slate of movies."   Perihelion Journal   Jay Antani 4/4 "A lyrical tone poem of a movie that's a haunting tribute to the great frontiers of love."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 10/10 "Foremost about a love that can never break out of its societal prison."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 4/5 "Brokeback Mountain is about as close to perfection as it's possible to come in modern Hollywood."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi A "explores repressed feelings, loneliness, suffering, and alienation as adroitly as any film in recent memory"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit "Like all great films, it takes us on a journey. You don't just watch Brokeback Mountain, you experience it."   Light Views   John Larsen 9/10 "Michelle Williams nearly steals the film as Ennis's wife in a quiet, complex, heartbreaking performance that will certainly garner award consideration. I can't believe how good of an actress she's become."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "Brokeback Mountain is about men and women, and how different they are from each other, and the ways in which they are different."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 2/5 "The pain and involvement for audiences experiencing forbidden love on screen rests entirely in the degree with which they can believe in that love in the first place"   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 3.5/5 "it could have been real campy, if it weren't so well-crafted as to be Oscar material"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "Men finding each other in a vast wilderness should be no big deal, but conservatives would have you believe it shakes the earth off its axis.* Lee makes their relationship epic in its reality and minuteness"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "(The film's) edge is its same-sex controversy, but the cast is what keeps it sharp."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/5 "The hubbub seems more politically driven in the wake of the gay marriage debate. And an Oscar win will be pandering to that."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2.5/4 "I love gay people and I love a lot of gay movies - just not this one."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A "certainly not what most would define as 'queer cinema,' but instead a most contemporary Western, a thing of raw, aching beauty."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "Lee has managed to capture more than lavish backdrops and romantic sentimentalities and arrives at the end of the film with a sad reflection on love fought for and lost."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Ledger is extraordinary here, so still and constant and beaten..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson "Film with much religious and mystical imagery"   Classic Film and Television   Michael E. Grost 4.5/5 "Ledger carries the film. His performance is a symphony of reserve ... he seems to be torn between exploding in anger and frustration and folding up into a fetal position."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/4 "The most beautiful thing about this film %u2013 which is full of beautiful things %u2013 is that it's a love story through and through. Humanity, not sexuality, is the heart of this tale."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "The story-telling is so plain and straightforward that, like the characters' feelings for one another, at first you do not realize how powerful it is."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C+ "As regressively conservative as it is trailblazing."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Envolvendo o homossexualismo ou não, a história de amor narrada pelo filme é tocante por ser universal."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "An inert disappointment."   Film Threat   Phil Hall 4/5 "All four central cast members have moments of transparency that shake us to the core."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 50) of 65 OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh Page   12   > Next