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The Crucible

1996

Nicholas Hytner

Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen ...

6.2

5,036

Drama A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"Apasionada versión de la obra de Arthur Miller que te hará hervir la sangre. (...) Recomiendo altamente la obra de Hytner, pero una parte de mí se resiste a una obra que hace que la audiencia nos sintamos tan nobles en nuestra certeza moral como los personajes que nos invitan a detestar. Parte de su poder parece tomarlo prestado de aquello que odia."	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It is precisely by leaving Arthur Miller's 1953 play so emphatically in the Salem, Mass., of 1692 that Mr. Hytner's vibrant screen version succeeds so well in transcending time and place. (...) Handsome and impassioned, vigorously staged"	POS
United Kingdom	Ryan Gilbey The Independent	"With this cast, you might have thought that Hytner didn't need to emphasise anything, but he does a lot of damage to the film's final half-hour by sending the camera off on wild, skyward missions"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A superb cast headed by Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, and Bruce Davison do a fine job of making it work (...) It has plenty to say about sexual repression and puritanical hysteria"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Thomas Empire	"[An] almost perfect screen adaptation (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The characters I believed in most were Elizabeth Proctor, the Rev. Hale, and Judge Danforth (...) Too many of the others seem like fictional puppets (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"As vividly imagined as 'The Crucible' is, it’s up to the actors to animate the stern Puritan cadences of Miller’s dialogue. They bring it off spectacularly"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] possesses the power to stir up wrenching emotion through its elemental crises and conflicts. But neither the establishing dramatic linchpin nor the final conversion of conscience is terribly convincing"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Despite some damaging cuts to the text, is a seductively exciting film that crackles with visual energy, passionate provocation and incendiary acting"	POS
United Kingdom	Jason Caro Radio Times	"Arthur Miller's emotionally raw play (...) is here brilliantly brought to the screen by director Nicholas Hytner (...) Daniel Day-Lewis is characteristically intense (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"There's stark beauty in Andrew Dunn's photography and production designer Lilly Kilvert's meticulously re-created Salem"	POS

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