Brokeback Mountain Reviews
Cinema Crazed
An important and original romance that really and finally portrays the homosexual romance as two humans falling in love and never plays it for clichés...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Matt's Movie Reviews
A romantic western with a twist, Brokeback Mountain is a haunting and well acted exploration of a forbidden and secretive love affair between two cowboys.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinemalogue.com
Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them.
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| Original Score: A+
CinePassion
Lee can't tell the difference between criticizing oppression and turning out an oppressed work
Film4
Arguably Ang Lee's best film, this swooning, achingly sad near-masterpiece offers a universal love story that lingers long in the mind.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Hollywood.com
If you have the patience to sit through a slow-moving romance and you lack the vanity to be put off by explicit cowboy on cowboy relations, you'll greatly appreciate the light at the end of Brokeback Mountain, a work of art that's more than just a movie.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
At times feels as ancient and familiar as any well-worn piece of American legend, even if its content could set John Wayne spinning in his grave.
BrandonFibbs.com
At its core, Brokeback Mountain is not a gay love story%u2013it is simply a love story.
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| Original Score: 8/10
eFilmCritic.com
It has the simplicity and clarity of a fable, wedded to the gnarled and taciturn physical realism of the Western.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film Scouts
A masterful telling of star crossed love, with all the complications of any affair. Neither gratuitous nor shying away from the hidden pasion, Lee crafts a sublte and quite beautful film.
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| Original Score: A
Film Journal International
Annie Proulx's beautiful, delicate short story...has been transformed into a beautiful, delicate movie under the masterly direction of Ang Lee.
NYC Film Critic
Just a well-made, well-acted melodrama that is quiet and reflective instead of big and bombastic.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Christianity Today
Though presented as a story of thwarted love -- of ache and longing and regrets -- it's ultimately a story about the relationships that shape us -- for better and for worse.
| Original Score: 3/4
Movies for the Masses
it could have been real campy, if it weren't so well-crafted as to be Oscar material
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Classic Film and Television
Film with much religious and mystical imagery.
Cinema Writer
A gallery of worthy performances, crisp direction and a quietly graceful script make Brokeback Mountain something of a landmark in Hollywood's 2005 slate of movies.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Metromix.com
A gorgeous meditation on the sorrow of finding everything you want and not knowing how to keep it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Creative Loafing
Behind its convenient (and infuriating) designation as "the gay cowboy movie," this is as universal as any love story Hollywood has produced in recent times.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Empire Magazine
[A] powerful and moving film, a smart study of relationships that could but can't and never will be.
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| Original Score: 5/5
AV Club
The approach is dry as the Wyoming landscape, and while it occasionally threatens to pull the film out of shape, it's still the right one for these men.
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| Original Score: A
