Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:25
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.3/10
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... [More]
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness
Director: David Lean
Reviews for Doctor Zhivago
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Laborious, but beautifully crafted 193 minute opus from the master of epic cinema, David Lean. Full Review |
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Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Lean's last great film. Full Review |
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Lean discovered, and fell in love with, Julie Christie, and knew straightaway that his audience would too. Full Review |
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[Lean] seems out of his element. Full Review |
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Literate, oldfashioned, soul-filling and thoroughly romantic. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
As always, Lean's handling of the purely physical aspects of the material is spectacular. Full Review |
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One of the most meticulously designed and executed films. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Beautiful cinematography...and set design...together with excellent performances combine to form Zhivago's timeless appeal Full Review |
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3/5 |
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5/5 |
David Lean masterpiece has great performances, sets
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5/5 |
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3/5 |
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C |
Fails to excite the imagination. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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2.5/5 |
Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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