It's one of those motion pictures that haunts your thoughts and won't let go.
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11/18/03
21 Grams (2003)
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Reviews Counted:171
Fresh:140
Rotten:31
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A moving, but frustratingly-structured drama with superb performances.
Theatrical Release:05-03-2004
Synopsis: 21 Grams is the new film from the Academy Award-nominated director of Amores Perros, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. It is a story of hope and humanity, of resilience and survival. Whether you fear... [More]
Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Reviews for 21 Grams
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Challenging, uncomfortable, and uniquely moving.
11/18/03
The ability to keep the multiplicity of stories and the interconnected timelines as focused as he does gives firm belief that we have a filmmaker well on the road to greatness
11/18/03
This film has great performances all around, especially from Naomi Watts in maybe her best role yet.
11/17/03
Once it finds its footing, the drama is a searing triptych of devastation and endurance.
11/16/03
It's a startlingly crafted movie, with several extraordinary performances.
11/12/03
...the most emotionally devasting movie to come around in a long while...
10/28/03
You won't come out unaffected, because the depths of intimacy that the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu plumbs here are so rarely touched by filmmakers that 21 Grams is tantamount to the discovery of a new country.
10/28/03
Top CriticThe consequences of loss rippling through the lives of strangers is a solid story shaken by mixmaster editing but the performances make 21 Grams a heavyweight.
10/25/03
A meditation on life and death that's on just the right side of pretentious.
10/22/03
A deeply spiritual film exploring the ties that bind a heart transplant patient, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con on a journey of guilt, pain, and redemption.
10/18/03
Its trinity share enough body and blood for a half dozen Catholic masses.
10/12/03
The superlative acting more than makes up for the film's flaws
10/10/03
A sad movie about the irony of inescapable destiny, it left me captivated and trembling.
10/08/03
A confused, confusing and too often glib treatise on matters of life and death.
10/05/03
Inarritu and his fellow artists have contrived something wondrous, a formally innovative fugue filled with demons and despair that somehow comes down on the side of life.
09/16/03
The presence of God's (or the director's) grand scheme is so apparent that it undermines the movie's time spent grappling with faith.
09/16/03
The film's images are whorishly cluttered with religious iconography and spiritual rhetoric but González Iñárritu hardly allows these codes to mirror a collective humanity’s existential bewilderment.
09/15/03
This is a great film with superb performances that only helps elevate the material to that even mightier level.
09/12/03
The rare film you wish would be even longer because it's so good.
09/12/03
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