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Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Amazing Grace is your quintessential historical biopic: stately, noble, and with plenty of electrifying performances.
Theatrical Release:Feb 23, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $21,156,133
Synopsis: Michael Apted, whose claim to fame till now has been the respected 7 UP documentary series, directs this lavish costume drama whose heart is as big as its budget. Though a marked departure, Apted's... [More]
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Benedict Cumberbatch
Director: Michael Apted
an intelligent film about serious thinkers and their ideas, and it's director Michael Apted's spare, incisive vison that prevents the film from becoming either cloying or maudlin, though the screen is painted with emotion
Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace, from a screenplay by Steven Knight, turns out to be blessed with inspirational nobility and comic eccentricity to bring it to emotional fruition.
Top CriticBlending period drama with message-driven political wrangling, Amazing Grace is as earnest and well-intentioned as it is unsurprising.
Handsome bio-pic wavers between a surplus of piety and a well done history lesson.
Who'd have thought that the most compelling and thoughtful film to be presented during Black History Month would be a formal British import set in 18th century England with men running around in wigs?
History purists will find the details enchanting, period drama fanatics will adore the arm's-length posture of the piece, and the true-life tale is one worth being told. Just make sure to ingest loads of caffeine before watching.
the film, like its central character, is resolute in its objective. Perhaps too resolute.
All the elements work harmoniously together: beautiful settings, an extremely talented cast who bring the characters to life, gorgeous costuming and a rich script that informs and delights.
A stirring and still relevant political drama with a stellar cast.
As square as this movie is, it has been made with eloquence and jaunty high spirits, and it tells a good story that is virtually unknown here.
Top CriticMichael Apted’s Amazing Grace is a beautifully chiseled blunt instrument. No, it’s not subtle, but how subtle was slavery?
Top CriticOften vulnerable, more often inspiring, Gruffudd's Wilberforce not only stirs curiosity but also quickens your conscience. As Fox notes eloquently, he was a great man. One does not have to be religious to believe he had amazing grace.
Amazing Grace marks an unforgettable and regrettable time in world history while highlighting a few who valiantly set out to right the wrongs.
Fernando Meirelles and Edward Zwick take note: Amazing Grace is proof that liberal filmmakers can make movies that aren't desperate manifestations of their political guilt.
A workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle for the abolition of slavery and the personalities behind landmark antislavery legislation into a tidy story of conscience and perseverance.
Based on the true story of one man's crusade to end slavery in 18th-century Great Britain, Michael Apted's film is a conventional social injustice drama, immenseley helped by Iown Gruffudd's captivating lead performance.
As a period piece, it's remarkably detailed, smartly written, and likably acted.
Think of this as "Pride and Prejudice" meets "Reds".
...ponderous and relentlessly padded in its moral morass... Grace manages to work effectively as a crusading costume drama drenched in consciousness and conviction.
Though it's not as inspiring as its makers might have wished, it's a solid, respectful treatment of a significant episode in the anti-slavery movement.
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