Laborious, but beautifully crafted 193 minute opus from the master of epic cinema, David Lean.
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03/04/08
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 26
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: It may not be the best of David Lean's epics, but Dr. Zhivago is still brilliantly photographed and sweepingly romantic.
Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to... [More]
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness
Director: David Lean
Reviews for Doctor Zhivago
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Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.
01/26/06
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Top Critic Lean discovered, and fell in love with, Julie Christie, and knew straightaway that his audience would too.
01/01/00
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Combining skill and kitsch in equal measure, David Lean's overbloated epic (a disappointing follow-up to Lawrence of Arabia) offers guilty pleasure so long as you don't expect a faithful adaptation of Joe Pasternak's novel about the Russian Revolution.
08/17/07
David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect.
08/13/07
As always, Lean's handling of the purely physical aspects of the material is spectacular.
08/13/07
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Top Critic Beautiful cinematography...and set design...together with excellent performances combine to form Zhivago's timeless appeal
08/21/06
Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance.
05/20/03
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