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Invictus

2009

Clint Eastwood

Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Julian Lewis Jones ...

7.0

68,183

Drama A look at life for Nelson Mandela after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen.

	Author	Review
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A temperate, evenhanded perhaps overly timid film about an intemperate time in South Africa. (...) [It's] a pleasure to encounter a movie that's actually about something."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Invictus' is a very good story very well told (...) Every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion."	POS
United States	Tom Long Detroit News	"It leaves you cheering, drained and inspired (...) is a sure crowd-pleaser with a wonderful message"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Clint Eastwood, a master director, orchestrates all of these notes and has us loving Mandela, proud of Francois and cheering for the plucky Springboks. A great entertainment (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The director has turned out a stirring drama about South African leader Nelson Mandela, blending entertainment, social message and history lesson"	POS
United States	Kristen Page-Kirby The Washington Post	"'Invictus' covers its sports-movie bases quite well (...) What the movie really needs is less talking, more crunching"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Potent, intelligent filmmaking — a movie that hits you squarely with its visceral impact and stays in your mind for a long time after."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"In a rare achievement, [Eastwood] has made a film that truly is good for the soul (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Morgan Freeman's diligent, nuanced portrayal of Nelson Mandela fails to save this sporting fable from a creativity deficit (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Eastwood hits all the right notes in exactly the right order, but it's his least personal film for a while (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"You definitely want it to be less naïve in its belief that sport – let alone sporting triumph – can unite or heal a nation (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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