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Gandhi

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Gandhi

1982

Richard Attenborough

Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson ...

7.4

40,392

Drama Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress Party, which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his "subversive" activities land him in jail, masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect. Such a film is 'Gandhi'"	POS
United States	Frances Dickinson Time Out	"Its faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsley's performance in the central role is outstanding"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Apart from all its other qualities, what makes this movie special is that it was obviously made by people who believed in it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Martin Chilton Telegraph	"Attenborough's stately film is in every sense of the word an epic and Ben Kingsley is superb as Mahatma Gandhi (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Grand in scope, the best thing here is still Sir Ben Kingsley's central performance; the film will always deserve to be seen for this alone (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Balanced compositions, tasteful landscape photography, impeccable art direction, and dry, theatrical acting (...) The film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography"	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Ben Kingsley's performance as Gandhi (...) [it is] likely to take its place among the cinema's great historic portraits"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"An amazing achievement. They simply do not build movies like this any more, which is a pity (...) A deeply moving character study"	POS
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"Attenborough’s heartfelt admiration for the man’s philosophy of resistance through peace is indisputable, yet it is expressed exclusively in conventional coffee-book epic tropes (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Radio Times	"[A] stately biopic (...) [It has] historical scope; sure command of thousands of extras; and, most of all, an ability to focus on individual endeavour amid the spectacle (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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