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Meet Joe Black

1998

Martin Brest

Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber ...

6.3

46,969

Romance. Drama. Fantasy Joe Black and Bill Parrish enter into a most unusual gentleman's agreement. Wealthy media tycoon William Parrish leads a charmed existence until Death comes calling with an extraordinary proposition - he'll delay Bill's imminent demise in exchange for a tour of life. Innocent, enigmatic and often hilarious, Joe disrupts Bill's world of privilege and corporate intrigue. But when he falls for Bill's beautiful daughter, Joe threatens to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Meet Joe Black' is a movie about death that stubbornly refuses to come to life. Is it bad? Indisputably."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie contains elements that make it very good (...) There's so much that's fine in this movie (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"There's not a scene or performance here (...) that couldn't have been helped in the editing room by picking up the pace."	NEU
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"This ... is ... a ... slow ... movie. Incredibly ... ... ... ... ... ... slow (...) If the damn thing were an hour shorter, I probably would have liked it a lot."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"At half its length it would have been twice the movie (...) Epic Hollywood romance that has oh-so-pretty central couple but drags alot (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"The movie's four screenwriters clearly don't know what to make of Death (...) A potentially charming fantasy becomes a grave, funereal work"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It is] weighed down by ponderous pacing, overstuffed production values and an instance of miscasting (...) The story is finally just too contrived and wispy to support heavy emotional investment."	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Much of director Martin Brest's so far firm rein on the proceedings is dissipated in a squishy denouement whose payoff does not fulfill the film's grand promise."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"More turns out to be less (...) 'Meet Joe Black' is sometimes clever and enjoyable, even touching, yet too often the film makes you feel as if you’re in Sunday school."	NEU
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"[A] savory, extralong feature (1998), whose obvious plotlines unfold with an almost painful slowness that somehow makes them deeper."	NEU

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