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Miral

2010

Julian Schnabel

Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Siddig ...

6.1

186

Drama A chronicle of Hind Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It is hobbled by its own sincerity and undone by a confused aesthetic agenda. A grand, complex human drama is reduced to platitudes and pretty pictures"	NEG
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Although too schematic and unfocused to garner much critical support, it has the kind of direct simplicity that could reach out to historically challenged audiences"	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Disappointing (...) The film comes across like a much-truncated movie version of a lengthy TV mini-series, and the director seems to be having trouble deciding where to place his restless camera."	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Combining narrative heavy-handedness with an airy disdain for the details of the situation, director Julian Schnabel gives us a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Miral' is well-intentioned but doesn't achieve the searing emotional resonance suggested by the story (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The resulting movie feels received and inauthentic, part melodrama and part geopolitical primer"	NEG

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