Great Expectations (1998)

It's a fairly minor film, but quite lovely and successful at creating its own time and place.

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01/09/09

If this movie were a sandwich, it'd be ham on white bread.

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01/01/00

The drama has a surface charm and panache that draws out the romantic in all of us.

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03/01/02

In the end, shiny surfaces are just that--surfaces, with nothing necessarily underneath.

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03/30/09

his film doesn’t have anything to say, it just wants to make a fashion statement: Pretty people should get to do stuff other people don’t get to do.

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11/01/02

The film's exectution is more of a tragedy than the story.

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02/08/03

Una obra maestra.

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08/31/01

a dessert for the eyes and ears. But...in the final analysis this modernization of the Charles Dickens classic has almost nothing to say and next to no emotional impact whatsoever.

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01/01/00

Sua 'moral' pode até ser simples, como em todas as fábulas, mas o processo pela qual é 'ensinada' é interessante - e espantosamente otimista.

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05/31/02