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The Constant Gardener (2005)
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Reviews Counted:181
Fresh:151
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: The Constant Gardener is a smart, gripping, and suspenseful thriller with rich performances from the leads.
Theatrical Release: Aug 31, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $33.6M
Synopsis: When a British diplomat's wife -- a socially-conscious lawyer -- turns up dead in Kenya, he sets out to find the truth surrounding her murder. In the... [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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REVIEWS FOR THE CONSTANT GARDENER
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Apr 29, 2009
Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston.
Nov 27, 2007
Top CriticFiennes has always been good, but in author John le Carré's 2000 postimperial African thriller, he may have found his signature role.
Aug 16, 2007
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller.
Jul 30, 2007
Mr. Fiennes, drawing his lips inward and adding just a slight quaver to his voice, gives his finest performance in almost a decade.
Jul 14, 2007
a deeply intelligent and profoundly moral examination of a world where the political and the personal cannot ever be kept apart.
Jul 3, 2007
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
Mar 1, 2007
The pornography of Third World damage and suffering for the popcorn munching voyeuristic entertainment of more economically cozy moviegoers.
Feb 8, 2007
While le Carre's narrative returns an unequivocal guilty verdict on the drug companies, the jury on Meirelles's storytelling abilities remains hung.
Jan 20, 2007
The Constant Gardener" has strengths that aren't apparent until the final credits start rolling.
Nov 20, 2006
Fiennes does a brilliant job of communicating his character's inner turmoil through subtle facial expressions and inflections of his voice.
Sep 11, 2006
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Sep 10, 2006
Admirably composed, even if it ultimately feels a bit of a shame that it all has to come down to good guys and bad guys.
Aug 7, 2006
Serious, topical filmmaking of a very high order.
Apr 1, 2006
It's the artiest conspiracy theory movie in a while, not too pulpy or too auteurish, but just right.
Feb 19, 2006
Interesting but flawed examination of multinational corporation criminality
Feb 14, 2006
A timely, daring movie that skillfully weaves the corruption of big government and drugs--the pharmaceutical sort--deep into its equation.
Feb 3, 2006
Fiennes and Weisz, who have worked together before in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine, make a glamorous pair. And while this may not have been the effect le Carre was after, it does no lasting damage to his theme.
Jan 17, 2006
This multi-faceted masterpiece works successfully on more levels than any ten remakes or sequels pumped out of the habitual humdrum Hollywood hit machine.
Jan 13, 2006
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