Pleasantville Reviews
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Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an impressive directing debut with this charming, nicely executed fable, which contrasts values of the 1950s with those of the 1990s.
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| Original Score: B+
Common Sense Media
Great movie for high schoolers and their parents.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Boulder Weekly
Though Ross works in some heavy-handed strokes, his portrait of stodgy Eisenhower America dazzles with some of the loveliest imagery of any 1990s film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Someday, maybe someday soon, someone in Hollywood is going to make a genuinely great movie about television as a metaphor for America.
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| Original Score: B-
Jam! Movies
Hollywood satire is not usually this enjoyable: Both savage and silly, Pleasantville is an absolute blast.
| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
This is an exquisite, timely film. It's nice to know that occasionally, even Hollywood does something right.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Film Threat
Ross has come up with one of the best, most subversive, and definitely one of the most memorable films of the year.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Top CriticThe lighthearted fable Pleasantville takes some pointed swipes at the make-believe world of 1950s TV -- and none too soon.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinema em Cena
Um dos filmes mais inteligentes de 1998.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Endearing it definitely is, so much so that it's easy to overlook the simplicity, and the sly confidence trick that gets played on us.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Sight and Sound
Overcomes its moralising and occasional pomposity with magical photographic effects.
Spirituality and Practice
An innovative and ethically provocative film about free spirits and those who would keep them down.
BBC
One of the few recent Hollywood films out there that has used new digital technology to truly engage the viewer, and make possible a thoughtful story.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinerina
An inverted fish out of water tale - like taking a lion raised by sheep & putting it in the middle of the savannah.
Full Review | Original Score: 5
Irish Times
