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Critics Consensus: Norman's elegantly told story is brought brilliantly to life by a quietly powerful performance from Richard Gere.
Critic Consensus: Norman's elegantly told story is brought brilliantly to life by a quietly powerful performance from Richard Gere.
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Gere, who somehow seems to make himself physically smaller here, creates a character both infuriating and endearing.
"Norman" is a small character study of a classic wannabe - think "The King of Comedy," set in the world of Jewish politics - and when it gets bogged down in international intrigue it loses its way.
Norman may be a mere wannabe, but "Norman" is a small gem.
Is Norman a macher, a schnorrer or a mensch? Thanks to the filmmaker's sensitive touch and Gere's sympathetic performance, he gets to be all three. And that calls for mazel tovs all around.
Gere delightfully soft-shoes his way through Norman, surfacing the character's loneliness without unduly exploiting it.
Gere ... deserves to be remembered at awards time.
An intriguing little character study from writer/director Joseph Cedar that slowly evolves into an intricate little political drama -- anchored by Gere's mesmerizing performance.
Builds to a dazzlingly regulatory ending, one that's as elegantly constructed as its hero's life is messy.
A doozy character study about a fixer.
Cut beneath the financial wheeling-and-dealing, and "Norman" is a surprisingly thoughtful film.
This is a fine little film, with a good performance from Gere (doing a downmarket version of his more typical slick-businessman roles) and a supporting cast that includes Michael Sheen, Steve Buscemi and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
"Norman" stays with you, thanks to Gere's empathetic embodiment of a "wanna-be" who is just a footnote in the lives of others.
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