Little Buddha Reviews
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Bertolucci's celebrated burnt-orange-and-burnished-lemon look remains handsome, and the story itself still commands some interest as a pivot into daunting material.
A crazily mesmerizing pop artifact that ranks alongside Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha in terms of extreme earnestness and quasi-religious entertainment value.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Though uneven, the film is engagingly moving and often humorous.
Little Buddha succeeds precisely because of its guileless innocence.
The modern sequences lack realism or credibility. The ancient sequences play like the equivalent of a devout Bible story.
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| Original Score: 2/4
As beautifully photographed and intelligently-written as the movie is, it has no emotional depth or appeal, and is often as cold and clinical as its gray depiction of Seattle.
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| Original Score: 2/4
