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21 Grams

2003

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg ...

7.6

86,659

Drama College professor Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) and his wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant, while she hopes to become pregnant with his child through artificial insemination. Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts), having matured since her reckless past, is a beloved older sister to Claudia (Clea DuVall), a good wife to Michael (Danny Huston) ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"A ruminative, stunned look at life after death -- that is, the existence of the living after they have been devastated by loss (...) Be prepared for it. You won't come out unaffected, because the depths of intimacy that the Mexican director plumbs here are so rarely touched by filmmakers that ''21 Grams'' is tantamount to the discovery of a new country."	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"A miracle: tough, smart, relentless, provocative and, above all, serious"	POS
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"A capital-M movie, and the most flagrant kind: Heavy emotion, heavy style, and lite philosophy"	NEU
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"Blessed with one of the strongest casts of any American movie this year, this bravura film, with its radical structure, is full of risk and reward."	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"The depths of intimacy that the Mexican director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu plumbs here are so rarely touched by filmmakers that 21 Grams is tantamount to the discovery of a new country."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"That Inarritu shapes something redemptive out of blasted lives is proof that he is a filmmaker of rare and startling grace (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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