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Veronica Guerin (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 71
Rotten:63
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: Cate Blanchett gives another great performance in a movie that doesn't shed much light on its title character.
Theatrical Release: Oct 17, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $1,511,180
Synopsis: VERONICA GUERIN, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, is the true story of the tenacious Irish crime reporter (Cate Blanchett) who exposed the brutal drug trade in 1990s Dublin. Veronica Guerin's intense... [More]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Reviews for Veronica Guerin
Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school.
10/15/07
Top Critic
While this is a movie that deserves a mildly favourable recommendation, it's also nothing short of a catastrophic fumble and an incredible lost opportunity.
06/04/07
A moving but gritty story of willpower and sacrifice that stops pleasingly short of a Hollywood varnish-job.
12/30/06
If you take out Cate Blanchett's amazing performance, you're left with a dull husk of a film from a director who knows little about filmmaking.
08/08/06
Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.
01/26/06
Cate Blanchett is most likely the greatest actress working in film today.
10/31/04
While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.
08/07/04
Top Critic Sporting a perfect Irish accent, [Cate Blanchett] imbues the character with a lot more presence than the script (and the director?) called for.
08/03/04
Guerin has the outward appearance of a quaint but brutal Irish gem like the works of Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan, but looks are deceiving
07/29/04
Veronica Guerin is a sharp study of the vices that sometimes goad us to virtue.
06/13/04
What you will take away from this movie is another fine performance by Blanchett.
02/09/04
[Joel] Schumacher remains a filmmaker with the potential to surprise.
01/01/04
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