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Albert Nobbs (2011)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 117
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 33
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Five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in 19th Century Ireland. After thirty years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard to build.. -- (C) Roadside Attractions

R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama

Directed By: Rodrigo Garc�a

Written By: Glenn Close, John Banville

In Theaters: Jan 27, 2012 Limited

Box Office:$2.4M

Roadside Attractions

The film surrounding the performance is not always as strong, but the centre holds, and magnificently so.

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Kate Taylor

Globe and Mail

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Albert is at the heart of it all and we see her through her own prism of vulnerability, resulting in a very human story about the search for love, acceptance and understanding of the self.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

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A movie that, like its title character, never quite dares to let itself discover what it really wants to be.

January 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

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What you feel, watching Close, is not that you are watching gender being bent into new, absorbing shapes but that you might as well have stayed home and leafed through a book on Magritte.

January 30, 2012 Full Review Source: New Yorker

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Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

"Albert Nobbs" is a film of great texture and tenderness, and the actors are a joy to behold.

January 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

[It] sneaks up on the audience with the quiet discretion of the enigmatic protagonist at its center. And, like him, it contains multitudes beneath its prim surface.

January 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

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full review at Movies for the Masses

February 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Close's craft raises the saddest of stories to the level of art.

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: East Bay Express

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Albert Nobbs is more a parable than a person, and Albert Nobbs plays out more closely to a fable than an authentic tale.

February 3, 2012 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Christopher Lloyd

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Shazbot!

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

This strange film about a woman pretending to be a man in 19th Century Ireland has some surprising twists and turns in it and some very good performances.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

That the film manages to be touching without being maudlin, and to be smart without being mean-spirited, is perhaps what really seals the deal.

February 2, 2012 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Bright, entertaining and touching, this re-uniting of collaborators sports lush sets and costumery and Oscar level acting by several of the cast.

February 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics

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Ron Wilkinson

Monsters and Critics

Close's performance is flawless, so much so that it's possible that she could have passed to an audience not expecting to see her in the role

February 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews

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Andrea Chase

Killer Movie Reviews

While most of us can't identify with having to change our gender to get by, we can all feel the familiar tug of Albert's fundamental desire, which is nothing more than to fit in and be loved.

February 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

... a thoughtful examination of the attempt to adjust to a society that sees only what it wants to see ...

January 30, 2012 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

The passion the star has for the material doesn't come across onscreen.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: Television Without Pity

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Ethan Alter

Television Without Pity

Sadly, great performances do not a great film make.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Mathew DeKinder

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dustin Hoffman and Hilary Swank could pass for the opposite gender; Close can't.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: KC Active

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Dan Lybarger

KC Active

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"nobbs" is an unfortunate last name for a man trying to hide the fact that he really is a woman. the film was somewhat interesting, and i always love gleeson on film, but i never really believed that anything redeeming would come of the story. the acting was solid but not great, and the end was terrible. overall, nothing to recommend.

February 9, 2012

danny d

Super Reviewer

"Albert Nobbs" is a quiet movie about living life as a lie. Glenn Close gives an award worthy performance as Albert Nobbs. Nobbs is a woman who lives life as a man to support herself in 19th Century Ireland. She wants to live life freely, but she has to keep up the charade of being a man, or she will lose her job

December 29, 2011

Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

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1. Helen: You are the strangest man I have ever met.
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1. Dr. Holloran: We are both disguised as ourselves.
– Submitted by Chris P (2 months ago)

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