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Ammonite

2020

Francis Lee

Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle ...

6.3

1,726

Romance. Drama In 1800s England, acclaimed but unrecognised fossil hunter Mary Anning works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. With the days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now searches for common fossils to sell to tourists to support herself and her ailing mother. When a wealthy visitor entrusts Mary with the care of his wife Charlotte, she cannot afford to turn his offer down. Proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, Mary ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"From the beginning (...) Lee trusts his lead performer to convey an incredible amount without dialogue. And that trust pays off in one of the best performances of Kate Winslet’s career (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"This is the work of a mature filmmaker (...) yielding remarkable performances, chief among them a complex character study (...) from Kate Winslet that might be the best work of her career."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"It strikingly confirms the talent Lee demonstrated in his 2017 debut feature (...) Ronan and Winslet are beautifully matched"	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Loving someone doesn’t ensure you will always be able to understand them; Lee and his stars may love these characters, but they never understand them. Neither can we."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"A transporting portrait of two ladies on fire, a union of flesh and spirit that speaks to a world where women must still fight for equality and the right to love."	POS
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"Lee’s 'Ammonite' is going to draw comparisons to Céline Sciamma’s 'Portrait Of A Lady On Fire', and that’s unfortunate. Sciamma’s film was a masterpiece; Lee’s (...) is merely a very good movie (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly The Playlist	"[It] sadly feels too distant, underpowered and colorless for its own good (...) [It] is no biopic. But thanks to Winslet’s intricate and impressively physical performance, one leaves it almost wishing that it was one"	NEG
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"A chamber duet by two virtuosos, reined in by a director who embraces the emotional but rarely gets sentimental"	POS
United Kingdom	Caryn James BBC	"The contained, potent performance is one of Winslet’s best (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] would pale in comparison with last year’s 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (...) Still, many audiences missed 'Portrait' (...), and there’s enough that’s unique about 'Ammonite' to recommend it all the same."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The open secret of Victorian sexuality is rediscovered by film-maker Francis Lee in this fine, intimate, intelligently acted movie (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A movie nearly as steeped in the wonders of natural world as it is in the emotional lives of its uncommon characters."	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Winslet and Ronan’s lesbian love story (...) All the pieces are here for 'Ammonite' to work as an introspective look at women’s lives, and love, in a male-centric era. But Lee’s grim tone is relentless, and I’m curious why (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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