Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 25 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins
Synopsis:
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay
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Laborious, but beautifully crafted 193 minute opus from the master of epic cinema, David Lean.
03/04/08 03:29 PM
Combining skill and kitsch in equal measure, David Lean's overbloated epic (a disappointing follow-up to Lawrence of Arabia) offers guilty pleasure so long as you don't expect a faithful adaptation of Joe Pasternak's novel about the Russian Revolution.
08/17/07 10:16 AM
David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect.
08/13/07 05:40 PM
Top Critic As always, Lean's handling of the purely physical aspects of the material is spectacular.
08/13/07 05:39 PM
Top Critic Beautiful cinematography...and set design...together with excellent performances combine to form Zhivago's timeless appeal
08/21/06 02:10 PM
Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.
01/26/06 03:15 AM
Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance.
05/20/03 05:06 PM
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