Directed By:Alfonso Cuarón
Written By:Charles Dickens, Mitch Glazer
Great Expectations
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Mixed or Average
55
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Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42% Positive
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Handsome, well-acted, well-written and beautifully directed movie.
75
May not be an absolute triumph, but it's significantly better than just a good effort.
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47% Positive
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6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Sep 26, 2011
9
In my review of " The notebook" i said that a love story must be coherent, and i think that this movie is coherent and also realistic, a story of a poor guy who fell in love with a rich girl, it might sound like a cliche, but this movie is just different of every romantic movie with that theme, **** wrote a great story and Cuarón always find the way in his camera work to make you appreciate and get involve in the right moment.
Apr 14, 2019
8
Updated screenplay of a classic, with all the essence preserved and respected. Isn't the best job of Alfonso Cuarón but he did the possible so isn´t a waste of time, particullarly with the story of an impossible love and the roles of Bancroft and De Niro.
70
Great Expectations has great style; that's not everything we want from the movies, but sometimes it's almost enough. [2 February 1998, p. 61]
50
Transforms Charles Dickens into a Chuck. Ground Chuck, unfortunately. [30 January 1998, p. 7D]
50
Cuaron is a special talent, and, as botched as Great Expectations often is, it's the kind of failure that deserves an audience--if only to experience Cuaron's way of seeing, which is at its best in the early parts of this film.
40
Suffers from being neither here nor there. In its rush to modernize its story and attract a young audience with stars like Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, the film ends up problematic both in relation to the original and on its own terms.
25
From watching this meandering, stilted movie, anyone unfamiliar with Charles Dickens' novel would be not only disinclined to pick it up but also clueless as to why it's considered great.
Aug 31, 2011
8
I don't know why, but there was something about this movie that made like it so much. Ethan, Gwyneth, Robert and Anne were all fantastic. I loved the Metro Scene and when Finn and Estella find themselves in ms. dinsmoor old house after several years, but overall this movie clicked for me.
