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Dominican Rep. Cradle Will Rock
2,799
Drama
"Based on a (mostly) true story," according to the opening titles, Tim Robbins's dazzling dramatization of one of the great stories in American theater indeed takes a few liberties with history. Ostensibly the story of the mayhem surrounding Marc Blitzstein's worker's opera The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles for the WPA at the height of the Depression, Robbins paints a veritable mural around this incident, a city alive with ... [+]
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"Wildly ambitious, unwieldy epic" | NEU |
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"Commands respect as mainstream filmmaking with more of an agenda than just pimping cinematic junk food to the brain-dead masses." | POS |
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"A missed opportunity to shed light on one of America's most turbulent times." | NEU |
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"An ensemble cast brimming with great theater actors and movie stars tears into a collection of meaty, moving, funny roles, with largely vibrant results." | POS |
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"There is hardly a moment during this overlong, stunningly smug exercise in moral self-satisfaction when you actually care about a character, real or invented." | NEU |
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"Succeeds far more often than not in delivering a credible, kaleidoscopic portrait of creative, and often famous, individuals." | POS |
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