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Milk

2008

Gus Van Sant

Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin ...

7.0

32,560

Drama The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White. In 1977, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It's a total triumph, brimming with humor, heart, sexual heat, political provocation and a crying need to stir things up, just like Harvey did. If there's a better movie around this year, with more bristling purpose, I sure as hell haven't seen it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Harvey Milk was an intriguing, inspiring figure. Milk is a marvel."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"There's nothing terribly wrong with Milk, it's just that its celebration of a culture and a neighborhood, its valentine to the early days of gay rights activism, is mostly more conventional than compelling."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An adroitly and tenderly observed account of the life of Harvey Milk (...) [It] is most notable for the surprising and entirely winning performance by Sean Penn"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"The first great film to look at civil rights from the perspective of the gay movement (...) It transcends any single genre"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"[A] moving biopic (...) Sean Penn gives a meticulously detailed performance"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I felt that 'Milk' is a slightly staid film, closer to the middle-of-the-road side of Gus van Sant's film-making persona (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Colin Kennedy Empire	"Penn naturally nails all the mannerisms and lands the showreel moments cold (...) Van Sant plots a sensible course through the mounting melodrama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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