The Hurricane Reviews

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Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 24, 2010
Denzel dazzles in biopic of imprisoned boxer.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
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Time Out
June 24, 2006
Facile and unpersuasive.
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Peter Rainer
New York Magazine/Vulture
August 7, 2004
The movie's dogged humorlessness, and its sixties-style cant, don't do justice to all the political crosscurrents in this story.
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Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
April 25, 2003
A reminder that there's still a lot to be said for the good old-fashioned inspirational Hollywood movie.
Original Score: 3/4
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Richard Kelly
Sight and Sound
December 2, 2002
The drama is hung on a vendetta between a flawed-but-honourable man and a doggedly bad cop. Yes, it's Valjean and Javert, together again.
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Nell Minow
Movie Mom
August 2, 2002
Original Score: 4/5
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
June 18, 2002
Give director Norman Jewison credit for two things: 1) He made the movie; 2) He let Washington run away with it.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
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Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
January 1, 2000
A thoughtful and even inspiring film.
Original Score: 4/5
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Clark Collis
Empire Magazine
January 1, 2000
Rubin Carter can't be the saint Jewison would have us believe, but only the very ungenerous will find grounds for complaint.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
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Amy Taubin
Village Voice
January 1, 2000
Denzel Washington delivers a mesmerizing, volatile performance.
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Emanuel Levy
Variety
January 1, 2000
Washington elevates the earnest, occasionally simplistic narrative to the level of a genuinely touching moral expose.
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Jay Carr
Boston Globe
January 1, 2000
Its celebration of a spirit that refused to go down for the count is the important thing here, and Washington gets it shiningly right.
Original Score: 3/4
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Desson Thomson
Washington Post
January 1, 2000
A pleasurable experience.
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John Anderson
Newsday
January 1, 2000
The story never radiates much beyond the corruption of Carter's lifelong enemy, Paterson detective Vincent Della Pesca.
Original Score: 2/5
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Jeff Millar
Houston Chronicle
January 1, 2000
It's a measure of Washington's strengths that he swims while the film sinks.
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Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
January 1, 2000
You can always tell where The Hurricane is leading you. But the trip is strong and stirring.
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Bob Thomas
Associated Press
January 1, 2000
First-class film material.
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Wesley Morris
San Francisco Examiner
January 1, 2000
Jewison directs with a dispiriting brew of Hollywood schmaltz and deadly righteousness.
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
January 1, 2000
This movie about the nightmare of incarceration makes you taste the meaning of freedom.
Full Review | Original Score: B+
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Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
January 1, 2000
The last great performance of 1999, and arguably the best of the lot as well.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5
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