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Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date.
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It takes a world-class storyteller and a great yarn to rivet your attention for nearly three hours. This very classy, old-school movie - employing cutting-edge technology that will make your eyes pop - did it for me.
100
Naturally, Pitt and Blanchett are outstanding. Fincher's meticulous attention to detail is unerring, down to the light fixtures.
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Brad Pitt's sensitive performance helps make 'Benjamin Button' a timeless masterpiece.
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Benjamin Button is all of a visionary piece, and it's a soul-filling vision.
100
This film's manifold pleasures come in a series of small packages, with treats inside as tasty as they are unexpected.
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Aptly for a film so concerned with time, Button is 13 minutes shy of three hours and just flies by. If this is Fincher selling out, can he sell out more often please?
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A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love.
91
With his usual intelligence, technical virtuosity (the reverse-aging effects are astounding) and storytelling panache, director Fincher gives the film a power and unity that make nearly three hours go by in a flash and pulls its diverse elements together to be something unique for a Hollywood movie -- a true spiritual experience.
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Lyrical, original, misshapen and deeply felt, this is one flawed beauty of a movie.
