North Country Reviews
ComingSoon.net
North Country is the unfortunately overly-dramatized Hollywood version of a story that has a chance at being truly important and even uplifting, but thanks to extreme heavy-handedness, ends up being mostly shrill instead.
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| Original Score: 5/10
CinePassion
So "inspirational" it should mate with Cinderella Man and give birth to a litter of baby Oscars
Top CriticOccasionally inspired but much more often didactic.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Skillful filmmaking standing on a soapbox and pandering to the broadest audience possible.
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| Original Score: C
A wobbly fiction about a real pioneering sex-discrimination case, North Country is an unabashed vehicle for its modestly de-glammed star, Charlize Theron.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
FilmJerk.com
North Country has a sensational story, it's just a crime the filmmakers elected to write the script with crayons.
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| Original Score: C-
Combustible Celluloid
While Caro has a graceful touch and North Country never really missteps, neither does it try anything new or entertaining.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Eye
...feels simplistically manufactured and manipulative...Caro is never able to elevate North Country beyond the pedestrian confines of a melancholy Lifetime TV movie
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| Original Score: 2/4
Projection Booth
Would have you believe it's no more complex than a playground quarrel between boys, girls, and cooties.
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| Original Score: C-
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
In spite of Theron's excellent, impassioned performance, "North Country" nevertheless tends to go south.
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| Original Score: C
7M Pictures
North Country is about as subtle as a sledgehammer. It has a MESSAGE! And that message is simply this: men are pigs.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Cinema em Cena
Os realizadores de Terra Fria se revelam bem mais repugnantes e perigosos do que os mineiros retratados em seu filme supostamente liberal.
| Original Score: 2/5
Apollo Guide
The road to cinematic hell is paved with this sort of banal effort borne of bland good expectations.
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| Original Score: 62/100
This is nuance-free moviemaking, a drama about mine-workers with barely a glimpse of what the work entails.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
North Country is a "message movie" with a target so big that it's impossible to miss, which is part of the trouble.
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| Original Score: 3/5
In overdoing the theatrics and hammering the clichés North Country does artistic injustice to its own important argument.
| Original Score: C-
Theron's truly raw and impassioned performance as Josey - - can't save the film from its own gradually slowing pace and seriously compromised third act.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Though the dirt and grime in North Country are artfully applied, it's purely cosmetic and skin-deep.
| Original Score: 2/4
If you want to see good performances and cinematography wasted in a mediocre movie, that would be North Country.
