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The Beach

2000

Danny Boyle

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet ...

5.6

43,419

Adventure. Mystery. Drama Richard (DiCaprio) is a typical twenty-something American whose head is filled with an absurd amount of pop-culture and video game references. While travelling in Thailand in order to broaden his horizons and gain some real world experience, he meets Daffy (Carlyle), a crazy Englishman who gives Richard a mysterious map before committing suicide. Apparently the map leads to an idyllic island where the inhabitants live in a natural ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"'The Beach' is not a terrible movie, just an insubstantial one. All of DiCaprio's charisma and the director's savvy are used to divert us from the fact that there's not much going on."
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[It] is relentlessly beautiful and wholly annoying"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"It's much better than rumoured: entertaining, engrossing, and ripe for discussion (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is a seriously confused film that makes three or four passes at being a better one and doesn't complete any of them (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"The set-up is promising and Boyle's visual flair remains an asset, but the thinness of 'The Beach' (...) is a total blank"
		David Ehrlich Rolling Stone	"A Leo movie that was unfairly left marooned (...) 'Titanic' made Leonardo DiCaprio a sensation. 'The Beach' that proved he was a movie star."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"For the first hour or so, this movie (...) is a rattling good yarn (...) The difficulty is that the movie loses focus about halfway through"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"Visually resplendent but dramatically uneven (...) [It] manages to maintain reasonable interest throughout. All the same, its narrative waters become rather muddy in the late going, and its currents finally don’t run very deep"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Boyle misses the mark and ends up mired in chaos (...) Boyle rarely tries anything innovative (...) [It] is passably entertaining (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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