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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 226
Fresh: 196
Rotten:30
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus: A beautifully epic Western, Brokeback Mountain's gay love story is embued with heartbreaking universality, helped by the moving performances of Ledger and Gyllenhaal.
Theatrical Release: Dec 9, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $82,970,165
Synopsis: From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx and adapted for the screen by the team of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry... [More]
Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Director: Ang Lee
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Reviews for Brokeback Mountain
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Lee and his collaborators have tapped into Proulx's story and gathered it up without missing a single sad, delicate nuance.
01/27/06
Top Critic A haunting and complex story that explores the strength and fragility of love, Ang Lee's visually magnificent film is as affecting as it is beautiful.
01/19/06
Top Critic Ang Lee's beautiful epic is both a classic American western and a sweeping old fashioned romance that will tug the heartstrings of all but the coldest of people
12/05/05
Top Critic Arguably Ang Lee's best film, this swooning, achingly sad near-masterpiece offers a universal love story that lingers long in the mind.
11/21/08
At times feels as ancient and familiar as any well-worn piece of American legend, even if its content could set John Wayne spinning in his grave.
05/10/08
At its core, Brokeback Mountain is not a gay love story%u2013it is simply a love story.
02/28/08
It has the simplicity and clarity of a fable, wedded to the gnarled and taciturn physical realism of the Western.
08/11/07
Annie Proulx's beautiful, delicate short story...has been transformed into a beautiful, delicate movie under the masterly direction of Ang Lee.
02/22/07
Just a well-made, well-acted melodrama that is quiet and reflective instead of big and bombastic.
12/30/06
Though presented as a story of thwarted love -- of ache and longing and regrets -- it's ultimately a story about the relationships that shape us -- for better and for worse.
09/22/06
it could have been real campy, if it weren't so well-crafted as to be Oscar material
09/10/06
A gallery of worthy performances, crisp direction and a quietly graceful script make Brokeback Mountain something of a landmark in Hollywood's 2005 slate of movies.
08/20/06
A gorgeous meditation on the sorrow of finding everything you want and not knowing how to keep it.
05/04/06
Behind its convenient (and infuriating) designation as "the gay cowboy movie," this is as universal as any love story Hollywood has produced in recent times.
04/12/06
[A] powerful and moving film, a smart study of relationships that could but cant and never will be.
04/01/06
Top Critic The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
03/08/06
A jaundiced portrait of maleness in crisis… extending not only to… the central characters, but also to the validity of manhood as exemplified by every other male character in the film.
02/11/06
There is very little in the cold, clear air of Brokeback Mountain that isn't first rate [although] its argument may, for many of us, already seem strangely under- and overdone.
02/09/06
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January 22, 2008:
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Heath Ledger, star of films including Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You, and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, was found dead this afternoon. He was 28. More...
September 11, 2007:
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September 07, 2007:
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