Milk Reviews

All I know is that I can never get through Times of Harvey Milk without a handkerchief, while Van Sant's Milk left me forlornly dry-eyed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Ultimatelt resembles less the man than the titular white liquid -- warm, nourishing, somewhat sleep-inducing

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Why is there no openly gay Hollywood actor portraying any of the historical figures in this film? Because no American A-list film star has come out to be counted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Milk was murdered 30 years ago. The exceptional The Times of Harvey Milk won the Oscar for Best Documentary 24 years ago.... Yet, all this time later... Hollywood wants us to applaud its courage for finally--finally--telling this story?

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A paint-by numbers biopic of the tireless activist that wastes the efforts of some fine actors.

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The final result somehow undersells a man whose life and death were watershed moments in the gay rights movement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Bad art serves no one, but the reach for significance is often enough to proffer a pat-on-the-back and an affirmative nod, as if 'attempt' and 'achievement' were suddenly synonymous terms of action.

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A biopic so adoringly biased it destroys credibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Captures the feeling of the city, and the events of Milk's life; but never captures the dynamic charisma that had to be a vital part of the man

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

With neither subtlety nor depth, 'Milk' does no service to its group cause or individual subject.

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Milk presents details about the title character and his relevance... but the presentation itself appears more intent on being a recruitment film than an actual biopic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0

A bizarre manipulation of the gay political impulse.

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Actually retards attempts to understand what it is that transforms some men into symbols and others into sheep.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The frustrating aspect of the movie is that it could - and should - have been a moving drama. Instead, it settles for being agit-prop.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A poignant lesson about the ripples of impact one impassioned individual can have, regardless of sexual orientation, and regardless of the cause.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A little more sour to go with the sweet would have made Milk one of the greats.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Whether you are heterosexual, homosexual or somewhere in between, Milk is such an inspiring and powerful movie that you should drop everything you are doing right now and instantly head to the theaters.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It puts Harvey Milk back on his soap box, where his unyielding commitment to his issue cost him his life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Josh Brolin's double murderer steals the film from Sean Penn's Saint Harvey. That couldn't have been the intention, but the most fully developed character wins.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Perhaps it is simply an accident of timing that puts Milk in theaters at this moment. But fate or simple fortunate timing, Milk arrives as one of the best films of 2008.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5