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George Washington Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 5.0
    81

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Universal acclaim
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    Like Malick's "Days of Heaven," it is not about plot, but about memory and regret. It remembers a summer that was not a happy summer, but there will never again be a summer so intensely felt, so alive, so valuable.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Village Voice J. Hoberman

    It's at once brilliant and inept.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A peculiar combination of willful meandering and matter of fact violence, and it occasionally confounds in its attempts to exalt.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    A picture about America with the blinders off, a film about heroism that makes you chuckle and feel sad - and a film about childhood that lets us reenter that lost world and see the grass, sky and sunlight the way they once looked, in the golden hours.

  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    This dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner

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