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Trishna Reviews

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• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  As a melodrama, Trishna builds a hypnotic force.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  The shots of urban traffic jams have more spark than the story, which skips from a pregnancy to the filming of a musical to murder - without convincing us of any of it.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Michael Winterbottom's films aren't always successful, but they're almost always interesting. And, in the case of this odd transplantation from Thomas Hardy's grim Wessex to the glare and blare of contemporary India, spectacular visually, though awfully somber dramatically.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  Life is suffering, as the Buddha said (including in Hardy's emotionally grinding novels), but it's more complex and contradictory than the ginned-up realism Mr. Winterbottom delivers here.

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