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The Handmaid's Tale

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The Handmaid's Tale Reviews

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Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

| Original Score: 3/5

June 30, 2005
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

This film adaptation of Margaret Atwood's bestselling 1986 novel heralds freedom as a cherished ideal.

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July 10, 2003
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

Uneven yet still gripping

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Original Score: 4/5

November 16, 2001
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Original Score: C-

September 7, 2011
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

overblown paranoid crap based on same.

| Original Score: 2/5

December 21, 2004
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International

Pretentious, self-righteous melodrama about the evils of patriarchy

| Original Score: 1/5

December 17, 2004
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

| Original Score: 2/5

May 15, 2004
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

| Original Score: 2/5

March 19, 2004
James Sanford
James Sanford on Film

Harold Pinter's adaptation has its powerful moments, but ultimately the narrowing of the novel's scope dilutes the story's message too much.

Full Review Source: James Sanford on Film | Original Score: 2/4

August 17, 2003
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

| Original Score: 2/5

January 29, 2003
Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Original Score: low 0 out of -4..+4

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Original Score: 2/4

January 1, 2000

Entertainment Weekly
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Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Original Score: C-

March 9, 1990
Derek Adams
Time Out
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June 24, 2006
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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August 30, 2004

Movieline
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January 9, 2002
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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January 1, 2000
James O'Ehley
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January 1, 2000
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