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Che Review

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4.5

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  • 4.0
    64

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed here.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Che is a mass of contradictions, perhaps like the iconic revolutionary himself.

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  • 67

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    As political theater, Che moves from faith to impotence, which is certainly a valid reading of Communism in the 20th century. Yet as drama, that makes the second half of the film borderline deadly.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    The political realities of his legacy can be endlessly debated, but in this flawed work of austere beauty, the logistics of war and the language of revolution give way to something greater, a struggle that may be defined by politics but can't be contained by it.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    Mr. Soderbergh once again offers a master class in filmmaking. As history, though, Che is finally not epic but romance. It takes great care to be true to the factual record, but it is, nonetheless, a fairy tale.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    If this earnest, two-part biopic with a total running time of 268 minutes sometimes lacks cinematic flair, the straight-ahead, chronologically-driven film will inform and, to a somewhat lesser extent, excite viewers everywhere.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Benicio Del Toro, one of the film's producers, gives a heroic performance, not least because it's self-effacing.

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4

amazingly well done, and Del Toro defines what it is to be an actor. by StToMmY102004
you don't have to know anything about Che Guvera to watch this movie. i love that they kept it in spanish, felt more realistic.

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