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The Interpreter

2005

Sydney Pollack

Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Sydney Pollack ...

6.0

25,312

Mystery. Thriller. Drama In this suspense thriller Ms. Kidman plays a United Nations interpreter who overhears a death threat against an African head of state about to address the General Assembly, and Mr. Penn plays a federal agent assigned to protect her while harboring suspicions about her ideals and motives.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] is coolly absorbing without being pulse-quickening. The film is plot-heavy and superficially suffers from a lack of chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A taut and intelligent thriller (...) The movie has a realism of tone (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] is conventionally described as a political thriller, but 'The Interpreter' is as apolitical as it is unthrilling"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"This is a dense, intricate story (...) Where the film snags is in melding both its thriller framework and political philosophy (...) Solid, mature and finely acted, but intermittently daft (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"A polished and preposterous thriller, 'The Interpreter' offers two excellent actors a chance to show off, but it's not half as important as it thinks it is (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[It] gets more and more complex until it's almost laughable; it has too many beats, too many reverses, and in the end seems unbelievable."	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Thrillers don't get much smarter than 'The Interpreter'"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Interpreter' bristles with the smart, steadily engrossing tension that marked such 1970s goodies as 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View' and Pollack's own 'Three Days of the Condor' (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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