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RosAzzo

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I have to say that this is a very interesting movie. Sir Anthony Hopkins does it again. He is such a fantastic actor. Brad Bitt plays a great part of Death. At times you can see how well he plays the part as for most of the movie he was very...
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I have to say that this is a very interesting movie. Sir Anthony Hopkins does it again. He is such a fantastic actor. Brad Bitt plays a great part of Death. At times you can see how well he plays the part as for most of the movie he was very cinfusing as I could understand what exactly he was doing.

This is a very good movie and I would highly recommend it!

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Posted aug 26, 2008 7:45 pm pt

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I don't know why the critics score this move in that way but whatever. In some parts the cast are bad and overacted, the movie is long but the story is interesting. The dead use a body of a person and wants to live as a human then he fall in love...
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I don't know why the critics score this move in that way but whatever. In some parts the cast are bad and overacted, the movie is long but the story is interesting. The dead use a body of a person and wants to live as a human then he fall in love but the girl love the real soul that lived in that money, that´s the big resume of the movie.

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Posted nov 21, 2007 11:54 pm pt

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I just have to say that I love this movie. Yes, it's three hours long, but there are only one or two even remotely dull moments that pass quickly. It's wonderful to see a person experience things in life that most people have come to take for...
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I just have to say that I love this movie. Yes, it's three hours long, but there are only one or two even remotely dull moments that pass quickly. It's wonderful to see a person experience things in life that most people have come to take for granted. The scene where Joe discovers peanut butter always makes me jump up and run to the kitchen to get some for myself.

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Posted mar 31, 2007 9:10 am pt

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A good movie and i like it the only bad thing is that it is 3 hours long and it can get a little slow and dull in a few parts

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Posted feb 17, 2007 1:19 pm pt

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An excellent film but i havent seen it for a while so i dont want to give it any bad coments

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Posted jan 1, 2007 6:08 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The movie contains elements that make it very good, and a lot of other elements besides. Less is more.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  Sometimes clever and enjoyable, even touching, yet too often the film makes you feel as if you're in Sunday school.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  Meet Joe Black flows nicely, and the whole of the film is bathed in some of the most sumptuous cinematography (courtesy of "Like Water for Chocolate's" Emmanuel Lubezki) of the year.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  Ultimately, the movie is a perfect mirror of its star -- looks great, seems empty.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  60
  Meet Joe Black is a hefty three hours long, and just so you know, it is at least two before Claire Forlani, as the Parrish daughter, Susan, unbuttons Pitt's shirt.

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  60
  Meet Joe Black is Hopkins's movie and, despite the film's unnecessary length, his quiet and dignified performance almost carries the ball across the finish line.

  by Michael O'Sullivan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  60
  A businessman is visited by an otherworldly presence who has the nerve to fall in love with his daughter in this savory, extralong feature, whose obvious plotlines unfold with an almost painful slowness that somehow makes them deeper.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  Brest deserves credit for letting the story unfold at a thoughtful pace, but the drama falls apart in the last half-hour, gushing with exaggerated emotions and abandoning its fairy-tale premises for an unconvincing feel-good finale.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  50
  There are many unanswered questions here (why, for instance, does Pitt's Grim Reaper seem semi-retarded?), not to mention unintended spasms of comedy; in the end, however, they all get swallowed up in the mush.

  by Anthony Lane | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  It's not just that Pitt's performance is bad. It hurts.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  50
  You feel the full weight of the movie's three hours, since the filmmakers only had 90 minutes' of plot.

  by Walter Addiego | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  Clocking in at a self-important two hours and 59 minutes, this elongated romantic fable is impossible to sustain at a running time better suited to the fall of the Roman empire.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  It doesn't pay to look too closely at this sumptuous fantasy, but if you're in the right mood to let it wash over you it's very warm and fizzy indeed.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  What might have been an effective fantasy if handled with sophistication and insouciance is instead weighed down by ponderous pacing, overstuffed production values and an instance of miscasting.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  Meet Joe Black, with Brad Pitt, is a near-death experience: Time seems to stop as we stiffen in our seats and the actors all whisper as if they're at a wake.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »