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The Ottoman Lieutenant

2016

Joseph Ruben

Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley ...

4.8

556

Drama. War. Romance A beautiful, strong-willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire - a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty to Jude and the mission's founder tested when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"[It] offers another theoretically noble if B-grade and somewhat propagandistic attempt to shed light on a murky historical chapter — while falling into a similar puddle of romance-novel cliches from which it can’t get up."	NEG
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"[It] is an intensely familiar product, a studiously old-fashioned period melodrama in which the capricious winds of history are subsumed into a flatly predictable romantic narrative (…) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Without a shred of passion evoked by the film’s love triangle and the debasement of historical fact in the story’s war-torn storyline, 'The Ottoman Lieutenant' arrives in theatres already in a body bag (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"Aims high, but falls short (...) If only the acting, directing or writing were more interesting than the landscape, 'The Ottoman Lieutenant' might have something to recommend it (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"[It] is an overwrought nurse romance merged with a history lesson, a combination that is hard to take as seriously as the film wants to be taken."	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Mr. Stockwell’s work also offers up a near-constant flow of clichés (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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