It's safe to say that if you knew nothing about Gandhi before going in to the movie, you wouldn't know a whole lot more coming out.
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01/29/08
Gandhi (1982)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:33
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Director Richard Attenborough is typically sympathetic and sure-handed, but it's Ben Kingsley's magnetic performance that acts as the linchpin for this sprawling, lengthy biopic.
Runtime: 3 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up... [More]
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud
Director: Richard Attenborough
Reviews for Gandhi
Top CriticIts faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsley's performance in the central role is outstanding.
06/24/06
Top CriticWorthy, handsomely mounted, but highly conventional and ultimately dull.
01/01/00
Top CriticAttenborough's crowning achievement as a director.
03/25/08
No review available.
03/08/08
Ben Kingsley's title performance is amazing, particularly in the way he ages across the five decades which the film depicts.
01/29/08
Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.
01/29/08
Top CriticNo review available.
07/28/07
Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India.
03/05/07
Every bit the biopic that Patton was, Gandhi is emotionally engaging but taxing on the viewer's stamina. Ben Kingsley is astounding.
12/22/06
Despite an intelligent title performance by Ben Kingsley and impressive cinematography in the manner of David Lean, this huge, clunky biopic offers less than meets the eye.
12/17/06
Top CriticAttenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography.
12/17/06
Despite an intelliegnt performance by Ben Kingsley in the lead, Attenborousgh's biopic is disappointingly conventional, failing to illuminate the venerable leader or the socio-political context in which he lived.
07/28/06
No review available.
10/27/05
A true epic in every sense of the word!
01/01/05
A remarkable experience.
10/23/04
Top CriticOvershadowing even Ben Kingsley's astonishing, transcendent performance in his first major screen role is a larger, more formidable presence: that of Gandhi himself.
07/09/04
No review available.
03/04/04
No review available.
10/04/03
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