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Fresh:148
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: $33,565,375
Synopsis: Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose previous film, CITY OF GOD, won awards all over the world--and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars--has crafted another... [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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It harkens back to an era when movies about socially relevant causes came without irony and with the conviction that wide exposure could bring about needed changes. In other words, this isn't your usual multiplex offering.
Top CriticWhile not nearly as kinetic as City of God, the film shares its grainy, blown-out look (both were shot by cinematographer Cesar Charlone), and in its own quiet way, is just as explosive.
A masterwork of suspense, romance and political intrigue. It is a taut and gripping thriller that dazzles the eyes and engages the brain in a way that few recent films have come close to approaching.
The Constant Gardener is one of the great films of the year.
It is comforting to know that, in his tireless commitment to doing Chekhov and Ibsen on the London stage, Fiennes hasn't forgotten how to be a movie star.
Top CriticThe Constant Gardener is the latest movie to try and take a grown-up look at government trickery and subterfuge, and it's the best since 2001's The Tailor of Panama.
Top CriticIt's smart, sexy, allusive, fresh and real, getting under the skin like a fever dream. No fictional feature this year has been so grown-up, so provocative, so assured, so good.
Its creeping pace will bore many viewers, but it'll inspire more than a few to march in the streets.
Top CriticFiennes, giving one of his finest screen performances ever, beautifully illustrates every step of Justin's journey... a fine thriller (and) a genuine heartbreaker as well.
The outcome seems rushed and predestined, rather than exposed.
The personal and the global are at frustrating odds...
Like The Insider, from a few years back, Gardener is a thriller of the conscience...
Fiennes alone drums up enough support to keep viewers from leaving the theater, but Meirelles can't find a decent pace for the overall film.
Under the weight of its own self-imposed expectations, Gardener cannot help but fall short on many counts, particularly its emotional connection.
Places us within the mindset of love lost which then provides us the motives to direct our outrage at the pencil pushers who are responsible.
The Constant Gardener is a thriller with plenty on its mind. It leaves us wondering how well we know the world around us, not to mention the people we love. It's appropriately unsettling.
Top Critic... this film has more texture and depth and righteous anger and genuine emotion than any Big Hollywood Movie released so far this year.
Even if it doesn't run entirely smoothly, The Constant Gardener carries a nobility in its purpose that's worthy of attention.
A preachy but gripping socio-political thriller...directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to City of God.
Unbalanced... disingenuous... cares no more about Africa than do the story’s evil villains at a make-believe drug company.
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