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Brokeback Mountain

Romance. Drama The story of two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
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Newsweek
Newsweek
"Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion" POS
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Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
"It's possible to point to some weak spots in Brokeback but there is no movie this year that has moved my heart more than 'Brokeback Mountain'"  POS
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The Wall Street Journal
"'Brokeback Mountain' aspires to an epic sweep and achieves it, though with singular intimacy and grace." POS
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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
"Gently unfolds into an epic, heartbreaking love story that's far greater than the sum of its parts" POS
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ReelViews
ReelViews
"Isn't for everyone, but for those who are not bothered by the homosexual relationship, it offers a study in yearning, love, and loss" POS
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker
"This slow and stoic movie, hailed as a gay Western, feels neither gay nor especially Western: it is a study of love under siege" POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character. It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn"  POS
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Empire "The real revelation here is Heath Ledger as the bruised and sometimes brutal Ennis. His tortured secret is the tragedy and the ecstasy of this powerful and moving film" POS
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LA Weekly
LA Weekly
"'Brokeback Mountain' is at once the gayest and the least gay Hollywood film I've seen, which is another way of saying that Lee has a knack for culling universality from the most specific identities" POS
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
"It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story" POS
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