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Norwegian Wood Review

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4.0

Dave White Profile

The lonely hearts club band. Read full review

4.0

Grae Drake Profile

I once had a movie, or...it once had me. Read full review

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  • 3.0
    58

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Despite Hung's obvious gifts as a filmmaker, he has ditched this raw immediacy in favor of a drifty, overstuffed, ultimately dull melodrama.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Variety Justin Chang

    Lovely but listless.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    The film has the loose narrative structure of a quasi-poetic personal journal that is more a series of reflections than a cohesive story.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    The fact that Norwegian Wood is based on Haruki Murakami's 1987 international best-seller should encourage many viewers to give this long, elegantly shot, sporadically involving Japanese film a try.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    There is something in the nature of director Tran Anh Hung, however, that seems to resist happy endings. In the emotional arc of his art, the high point seems to be bittersweet. It's sweet all the way up, wavers in dread and slides down to doom.

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From the title i thought this was a gay porno. Unfortunately it wasn't : /

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