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A Price Above Rubies (1998)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:15
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6/10
Synopsis: Free spirit Sonia longs to escape the restrictions of the community into which she was born--the tiny, hermetic cultural circle of the Brooklyn Hasidim--and rebels against her erudite but... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Allen Payne
Director: Boaz Yakin
Reviews for A Price Above Rubies
Top CriticThanks to Boaz (Fresh) Yorkin, we now have Bye, Bye, Hasid or better yet Escape from the Tefillin.
12/19/02
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01/28/05
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10/10/05
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12/07/04
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03/25/04
Writer and director Boaz Yakin has fashioned a beguiling drama about the deep yearning we all have to express our heart's desire. The film's title is from Proverbs 31:10.
03/02/02
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Renee Zellweger, previously best known as the sweet mom from 'Jerry Maguire,' delivers a quietly stunning performance in the lead.
01/01/00
Yakin dares to not only enter that neighborhood, but to find beauty and sadness in it, rather than something alien or foreign.
05/26/06
Yakin's argument is presented with such blind rage and fury that his little film goes from sensitive and perceptive to sensational and scandal-mongering very quickly
07/26/09
Yakin cleverly introduces elements of magic realism in an otherwise starkly real, modern allegory.
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03/04/03
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12/18/05
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04/12/02
A Price Above Rubies would have more impact if filmmaker Boaz Yakin didn't allow its energy level to sag in several scenes, and if he avoided some lapses into Hollywood-style sensationalism.
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06/26/05
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