A film of grand gestures and also intricate subtlety, which is unfortunately bogged down by the wooden performances of the leads and some pacing problems.
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01/27/04
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Cold Mountain (2003)
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Reviews Counted:216
Fresh:154
Rotten:62
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: The well-crafted Cold Mountain has an epic sweep and captures the horror and brutal hardship of war.
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $95,589,607
Synopsis: Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Reviews for Cold Mountain
Lovely to look at, engagingly acted, but empty and... well, "cold" pretty much sums it up.
01/27/04
...a film that works, more or less, simply for being about real characters and how they cope with situations.
01/27/04
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01/24/04
A rapturous, moving experience that's filled with drama, comedy, music, and action.
01/22/04
A film of many excellences undermined by a flawed narrative.
01/21/04
Top CriticThat ancillary characters are played by big-name supporting actors, each of whom seems to be working in a different register, just underscores the choppy nature of the story.
01/21/04
Cold Mountain is an engaging story ... It is unfortunate that it occasionally takes itself too seriously for its own good.
01/21/04
The movie is captivating from beginning to end, and there is nary a boring scene to be found.
01/15/04
Law and Kidman are the stars, but it's the secondary characters that the audience will connect with and remember, especially Ruby.
01/15/04
A good-looking but dull and eccentrically cast romantic drama set during American civil war.
01/15/04
Although there were some good moments in the film, mostly due to Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Cold Mountain” never rises above the average.
01/14/04
Beauty and skill bereft of passion or personality.
01/13/04
Even for a movie that works in pieces, all three leads are miscast.
01/13/04
This one was good but I expected much more.
01/12/04
A one note affair about the ravages of war in which beautiful people are dirtied up and walk around idyllic landscapes while bad things happen all around them...
01/12/04
holds itself up with a sometimes labored studiousness that threatens, but never quite undermines, the inherent power of the story
01/11/04
This romantic costume drama set during the civil war has both an epic scale and focused, personal stories.
01/09/04
Kidman’s locks gets mysteriously re-highlighted during the Civil War's most depressed period — maybe Zellweger’s Ruby was as handy with foils as pitchforks.
01/09/04
The brevity of each of these incidents is a function of the film's structure, but it also creates a sense of perpetual dislocation.
01/09/04
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