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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:9

Rotten:12

Average Rating:5.3/10

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Sherbedgia, C. Thomas Howell

Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Moritz Bleibtreu, Rade Sherbedgia, C. Thomas Howell

Reviews for The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

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A lovely-looking, capably made motion picture.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Eric Monder
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

[A] plodding and pretentious historical drama.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
03/22/06
Drew Tillman
Drew Tillman
Village Voice

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/21/06
Film Threat

Comes to us wrapped in hand-woven shawls of struggle and perseverance.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
01/20/06
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
Slant Magazine

While sumptuously beautiful, the film is often stilted and undermined by some painfully amateurish performances that no good intentions can smooth over.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
01/13/06
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The writing, acting and direction are so amateurish that the only thing you'll care about is escaping the theater.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/13/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

The director approaches the enormity of his task with an earnest enthusiasm, offering a likable alternative to the assembly-line banality of so many family films.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/13/06
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

More education than entertainment, Mashayekh's first feature length film tells a valid story but fails to produce on the promise of court intrigues and swordplay.

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
01/13/06
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

The story behind the making of The Keeper is more inspiring than the film itself.

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01/12/06
Dana Stevens
Dana Stevens
New York Times
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Ambitious, heartfelt and grand in both its ideas and its pride of place (the Middle East), the film suffers from its virtues.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/12/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

A reverentially pokey drama that plays less like a conventional movie than a lengthy series of hagiographic historical tableaux.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/11/06
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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The Keeper suffers from a surfeit of scattershot acting and clunky narrative devices that usher the viewer back and forth through time with all the subtlety of a culture clash.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
12/31/05
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The movie's intentions are like the starry constellations that inspire the eponymous hero: out of reach.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
12/15/05
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

In story structure, performances, pacing, and dialogue, the film's the work of a first-timer. In its deep love for an ancestral culture, it shines.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/15/05
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
12/10/05
Boston Phoenix

The movie gets historical with the warring factions in Persia, Hassan's attempt to assassinate the Sultan, and other Lawrence of Arabia style stuff in the desert.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
11/11/05
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

For those who know of Omar Khayyam, make the trip to the theater to see this one. If you're just curious, wait for the DVD.

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
11/03/05
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

Rough around the edges, it's still a formidable movie that's stunning visually.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/19/05
Jonathan Curiel
Jonathan Curiel
San Francisco Chronicle

An accomplished first film that manages to comment on the current situation in the Middle East while dealing movingly -- and in very human terms -- with the importance of heritage and history in contemporary life.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
06/24/05
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle

The result is an admirable attempt that fails under the weight of its own ambition.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
06/10/05
E! Online
 
 
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