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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

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  • 5.0
    97

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    Universal acclaim
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  • 100

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    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    It's a pitiless, violent story that in its telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic achievement.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Variety

    Pitch perfect and brilliantly acted, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is a stunning achievement, helmed with a purity and honesty that captures not just the illegal abortion story at its core but the constant, unremarked negotiations necessary for survival in the final days of the Soviet bloc.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    This is a film with a commitment to reality unlike any we're used to seeing.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Nothing good happens in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the riveting, horrifying chronicle of an illegal abortion performed in 1987 when Ceauescu's dictatorial hand still gripped Romania's throat. And yet no lover of greatness in filmmaking will want to look away from one of the very best movies of 2007.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This is a powerful film and a stark visual accomplishment, but no thanks to Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). The driving character is her roommate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), who does all the heavy lifting.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    The film is dark, gloomy and without music, but it is also observant and highly suspenseful, with Mungiu using his often static camera to balance banal cruelty with simple generosity.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Depressing and gut-wrenching, but always powerful and gripping.

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5

Powerfull movie by bogdanioana
Excellent movie, very disturbing, strong acting. Really deserved Golden Globe for a foreign movie.

5

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