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The Darjeeling Limited Reviews

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• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Anderson is like Dave Brubeck, who I'm listening to right now. He knows every note of the original song, but the fun and genius come in the way he noodles around. And in his movie's cast, especially with Owen Wilson, Anderson takes advantage of champion noodlers.

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• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  This is familiar psychological as well as stylistic territory for Anderson after "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts.

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• 80

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  The India of the movie is more an idea than a reality...Exotic, spiritual and, according to Peter Whitman (Adrien Brody), "spicy"-smelling, it's a magical mystery place where wayward foreigners can go to get their souls back on track.

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• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  The Darjeeling Limited amounts finally to a high-end, high-toned tourist adventure. I don't mean this dismissively; it would be hypocritical of me to deny the delights of luxury travel to faraway lands. And Mr. Anderson's eye for local color - the red-orange-yellow end of the spectrum in particular - is meticulous and admiring.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  A spiritual quest can take many forms. One could argue that all of director Wes Anderson's movies focus on a sense of personal melancholy and directionlessness that often fuels such an odyssey. And they do so with a dark and offbeat wit.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Variety

  Inventively staged picture should satisfy the upscale, youth and cult auds Anderson has developed, though it's unlikely to draw significantly better than his earlier work.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  The film as a whole operates in Mr. Anderson's patented, semi-precious zone of antic and droll. It's not as if the filmmaker has gone off the rails. He's just not solidly on them.

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