Dead Man Walking is one courageous film, one of the very best of its time.
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05/26/06
Dead Man Walking (1995)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:49
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: A powerful, thought-provoking film that covers different angles of its topic without resorting to preaching, Dead Man Walking will cause the viewer to reflect regardless of their political viewpoint.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This fascinating and powerful drama explores the relationship between a condemned young convict and the nun who counsels him in the days leading up to his execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) is... [More]
Starring: Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry
Director: Tim Robbins
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Reviews for Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking was worth the river of tears I waded through on my way out.
05/14/03
Its objectivity is what makes it so controversial and fascinating.
01/01/00
Dead Man Walking could easily be manipulative or exploitative, but it's neither. Instead, this is hard-hitting drama that neither accepts nor offers quarter.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn entirely superb experience at the movies, but never have we seen anything on the big screen reduce grown men to tears like this drama.
01/01/00
This important film exposes the cruelty of death by lethal injection and shows that hate is the worst prison of all.
02/22/02
Penn proves once again that he should stop writing and directing and stick to what he does best.
12/05/04
Absorbing, surprising, technically superb and worth talking about for a long time afterward
01/01/00
Top CriticIt will make you think about its specific subject matter -- capital punishment -- in emotional, moral, social and political contexts, all intertwined and none reducible to right or wrong.
01/01/00
Crime and punishment are depicted in cruelly unflinching detail in Tim Robbins' deadly earnest, intermittently powerful death-row drama.
04/17/02
To say that the movie is neither for nor against capital punishment is disingenuous. Still, this is a fine and painful effort overall.
07/29/07
Acting rarely gets better than this.
01/01/00
Top CriticA profoundly affecting film that will touch you deeply and perhaps even prompt you to re-examine your notions about the issues at hand.
01/01/00
An intelligent, balanced, devastating movie.
01/31/02
Top CriticThe picture is cloudy in intent.
01/01/00
Top CriticOne of the deepest human films in a long time, one that doesn't back down from baring the human soul and exploring the vastness of its complexities.
02/27/01
Dead Man Walking is one of these rare films that really makes you think and gives you things to discuss. But if it is indeed an important film, it's also well crafted and gripping.
09/10/02
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