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Reds

1981

Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Edward Herrmann ...

6.9

3,953

Drama Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A traditional Hollywood romantic epic (...) And 'Reds' provides that with glorious romanticism, surprising intelligence, and a consistent wit (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Judith Martin The Washington Post	"It is occasionally rambling and repetitious, but nearly always intelligent and engrossing."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"A film that makes full and thoughtful use of its three-and-a-half-hour length to develop characters, ideas, and motifs with a depth seldom seen in movies"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Reds is an extraordinary film, a big romantic adventure movie, the best since David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia,' as well as a commercial movie with a rare sense of history."	POS
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"An engrossing, beautifully filmed and remarkably balanced portrait of a fascinating moment in history, cleverly enhanced by the intercutting of real-life documentary interviews"	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The subject - the romantic life of an American Communist - may be daring, but the moviemaking is extremely traditional (...) It's rather a sad movie, because it isn't really very good."	NEU

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