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01/01/00
Gandhi (1982)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:33
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Director Richard Attenborough is typically sympathetic and sure-handed, but it's Ben Kingsley's magnetic performance that acts as the linchpin for this sprawling, lengthy biopic.
Runtime: 3 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up... [More]
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Reviews for Gandhi
An epic biopic, over three hours in length, Gandhi captures the spirit of the man and his struggles.
01/01/00
Offers a conscience-exercising, mind-stretching, and soulful experience as it honors the great Indian leader who was an ethical giant and a visionary.
08/31/02
[Of] importance is the possibility that the film will bring Gandhi to the attention of a lot of people around the world for the first time, not as a saint but as a self-searching, sometimes fallible human being with a sense of humor as well as of history.
05/20/03
Top CriticGandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India.
03/05/07
A remarkable experience.
10/23/04
Top CriticOvershadowing even Ben Kingsley's astonishing, transcendent performance in his first major screen role is a larger, more formidable presence: that of Gandhi himself.
07/09/04
It’s really not nearly as bad as I feared it might be.
03/05/02
Attenborough's heavy-handed direction nearly derails the film, but Kingsley’s performance saves the day -- a rare thing of beauty, a joy that will be with us forever.
11/30/01
The film opens with an acknowledgment that it can't do justice to an entire life but that it will content itself with capturing the spirit of the man.
01/01/00
Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography.
12/17/06
Top CriticDespite an intelliegnt performance by Ben Kingsley in the lead, Attenborousgh's biopic is disappointingly conventional, failing to illuminate the venerable leader or the socio-political context in which he lived.
07/28/06
Every bit the biopic that Patton was, Gandhi is emotionally engaging but taxing on the viewer's stamina. Ben Kingsley is astounding.
12/22/06
Ben Kingsley's title performance is amazing, particularly in the way he ages across the five decades which the film depicts.
01/29/08
...a huge, sprawling, old-fashioned epic...yet it manages also to maintain an intimacy with its subject that helps us to understand Gandhi as a person as much as an icon.
09/03/01
Epic tale about one man's journey down the transforming path of wisdom and peace.
11/07/02
Attenborough's crowning achievement as a director.
03/25/08
Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.
01/29/08
Top CriticBoth script and camera serve only as a canvas upon which the masterful Ben Kingsley paints a touchingly lifelike picture of one of the greatest men in history.
06/27/01
Ben Kingsley is nothing short of mesmerizing in the title role.
08/28/01
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