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Though it suffers from excessive length and ambition, director Minghella's adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel is complex, powerful, and moving.
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If Minghella's debut feature Truly, Madly, Deeply was overrated -- a Ghost for the NW3 set -- this movie is a quantum leap towards cinema's potential for magic. February 4, 2020 | Full Review…
If Minghella's debut feature Truly, Madly, Deeply was overrated -- a Ghost for the NW3 set -- this movie is a quantum leap towards cinema's potential for magic.
Nigel Andrews
You can take your brain to The English Patient and you will not be insulted. Your eyes will not be offended either. This scarcely makes Minghella's film the best in the world; it just makes it loom large. February 4, 2020 | Full Review…
You can take your brain to The English Patient and you will not be insulted. Your eyes will not be offended either. This scarcely makes Minghella's film the best in the world; it just makes it loom large.
Geoff Brown
Its wit, sophistication and artistry never are at odds with the fundamental pull of a powerful love story that out-Zhivagos Doctor Zhivago because it respects love's mysteries, admits it doesn't know the heart's boundaries. April 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Its wit, sophistication and artistry never are at odds with the fundamental pull of a powerful love story that out-Zhivagos Doctor Zhivago because it respects love's mysteries, admits it doesn't know the heart's boundaries.
Jay Carr
Relentlessly beautiful, but not quite stupifyingly so March 1, 2018 | Full Review…
Relentlessly beautiful, but not quite stupifyingly so
Adam Mars-Jones
It took a filmmaker with Anthony Minghella's vision to even attempt an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. And it took a filmmaker with Minghella's talent to pull it off. February 22, 2015 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
It took a filmmaker with Anthony Minghella's vision to even attempt an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. And it took a filmmaker with Minghella's talent to pull it off.
Jeff Strickler
Could this possibly be the Casablanca of the late 20th century? January 7, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Could this possibly be the Casablanca of the late 20th century?
Jeff Shannon
Epically romantic stuff, with a welcome dose of modernism mixed up in an intriguing mystery. September 11, 2020 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Epically romantic stuff, with a welcome dose of modernism mixed up in an intriguing mystery.
Mike Massie
Whenever the movie's design seems too elaborate, too remote, it's the rare detail of these performances that redeems it. February 21, 2019 | Full Review…
Whenever the movie's design seems too elaborate, too remote, it's the rare detail of these performances that redeems it.
Mark Steyn
Minghella doesn't so much adapt the novel as he translates it wondrously to a different medium, with its mysteries and passions intact. February 21, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Minghella doesn't so much adapt the novel as he translates it wondrously to a different medium, with its mysteries and passions intact.
Dennis King
...a deliberate, lengthy but always fascinating film... February 21, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
...a deliberate, lengthy but always fascinating film...
Malcolm Johnson
Its performances are finely crafted with loving care. February 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Its performances are finely crafted with loving care.
Sky Staff
This is a radical adaptation which transposes, re-assembles and deletes key elements of the novel to achieve a pure cinematic reinvent ion that is admirably adroit - and as distinctive a work of art as the book remains in its own right. February 19, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a radical adaptation which transposes, re-assembles and deletes key elements of the novel to achieve a pure cinematic reinvent ion that is admirably adroit - and as distinctive a work of art as the book remains in its own right.
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