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The Constant Gardener (2005)
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Reviews Counted:178
Fresh:148
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: The Constant Gardener is a smart, gripping, and suspenseful thriller with rich performances from the leads.
Theatrical Release:Aug 31, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $33,565,375
Synopsis: Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose previous film, CITY OF GOD, won awards all over the world--and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars--has crafted another... [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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04/29/09
Fernando Meirelles, codirector of City of God, stresses old-fashioned storytelling and takes full advantage of his cast, including Danny Huston.
11/27/07
Top CriticFiennes has always been good, but in author John le Carré's 2000 postimperial African thriller, he may have found his signature role.
08/16/07
What it adds up to is a good yarn that uses real political concerns to make itself look beefier than the average Hollywood thriller.
07/30/07
Mr. Fiennes, drawing his lips inward and adding just a slight quaver to his voice, gives his finest performance in almost a decade.
07/14/07
a deeply intelligent and profoundly moral examination of a world where the political and the personal cannot ever be kept apart.
07/03/07
Elaborate, cynical, ambitious, eager, visually arresting, the film wants it all and gives plenty.
03/01/07
The pornography of Third World damage and suffering for the popcorn munching voyeuristic entertainment of more economically cozy moviegoers.
02/08/07
While le Carre's narrative returns an unequivocal guilty verdict on the drug companies, the jury on Meirelles's storytelling abilities remains hung.
01/20/07
The Constant Gardener" has strengths that aren't apparent until the final credits start rolling.
11/20/06
Fiennes does a brilliant job of communicating his character's inner turmoil through subtle facial expressions and inflections of his voice.
09/11/06
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09/10/06
Admirably composed, even if it ultimately feels a bit of a shame that it all has to come down to good guys and bad guys.
08/07/06
Serious, topical filmmaking of a very high order.
04/01/06
It's the artiest conspiracy theory movie in a while, not too pulpy or too auteurish, but just right.
02/19/06
Interesting but flawed examination of multinational corporation criminality
02/14/06
A timely, daring movie that skillfully weaves the corruption of big government and drugs--the pharmaceutical sort--deep into its equation.
02/03/06
Fiennes and Weisz, who have worked together before in Istvan Szabo's Sunshine, make a glamorous pair. And while this may not have been the effect le Carre was after, it does no lasting damage to his theme.
01/17/06
This multi-faceted masterpiece works successfully on more levels than any ten remakes or sequels pumped out of the habitual humdrum Hollywood hit machine.
01/13/06
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