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The Decalogue (1988)

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Average Rating: 9.2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0

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Average Rating: 4.6/5
User Ratings: 7,211

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Movie Info

Unrated, 9 hr. 44 min.

Drama

Mar 28, 2000

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (0) | DVD (5)

See part of it, or see all of it. Just be glad it's around.

January 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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An overwhelming psychological and spiritual epic for our times.

March 20, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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There is no question that Dekalog is the summit of Kieslowski's achievements.

February 21, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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All of the films in The Decalogue are easy and pleasurable to follow as stories, yet part of the excitement they generate stems from discussions about their meaning after their dramatic impact registers.

February 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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A masterwork of modern cinema, essential viewing for anyone who cares about the movies as a serious art form.

February 21, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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The 10 films are not philosophical abstractions but personal stories that involve us immediately; I hardly stirred during some of them.

February 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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Brilliant and moving, a masterpiece about the fragility of human nature.

July 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

... a stone masterpiece.

October 29, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Not only ranks as one of the most ambitious and challenging film works ever attempted, but one of the most rewarding and unforgettable.

December 26, 2006 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Far from being morality tales, these short stories are closer to parables — at least, they are as confounding and strange as Jesus' parables were to his first hearers.

June 14, 2004 Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | Comment
Decent Films Guide

Highly ambitious, and though every 'episode' may not be up to par as are others, it still remains a risky and commendable work.

July 10, 2003 Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Most of the films put characters into situations in which they cannot obey one commandment without breaking others. Challenges you to figure out how to be a moral person in a world with no easy answers.

March 11, 2003 Full Review Source: Offoffoff | Comment
Offoffoff

Kieslowski gives cinematic voice to ethical problems in a way that perhaps no other director does. These films are bleak, somber, downbeat in theme, but pose problems we need to think about.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

Who knows how often you'll actually want to watch the whole thing, but it's masterful film-making nonetheless.

August 7, 2002 Comment
New Times

Amongst the greatest stories ever told. No serious film scholar can afford to miss it.

July 21, 2002 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

The Decalogue finds Kieslowski and co-scenarist Krzysztof Piesiewicz turning a delicate cycle of intimate, funny, heartbreaking, and compassionate works into a symphony of human fallibility.

May 29, 2001 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Decalogue

Epic! It's well worth the time commitment to watch these modern envisionments of the ten commandments. These interpretations are rife with ethical ambiguity, forcing the viewer to question and analyze their moral assumptions.

April 7, 2008
bookmunki

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Decalogue I - 5/5Decalogue II - 4/5Decalogue III - 4/5Decalogue IV - Decalogue V - 4/5Decalogue VI - 3.5/5Decalogue VII -Decalogue VIII - Decalogue IX - Decalogue X -

May 7, 2007
kenstachnik

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