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Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992

Francis Ford Coppola

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves ...

7.6

89,572

Horror. Romance. Fantasy In 1462, Elisabeta, the wife of Vlad Dracula, the ruler of Transylvania, throws herself to her death, wrongly believing that her husband has been killed while defending against the Turks. But when the church he has been defending condemns her soul to Hell for taking her own life, Dracula damns them and accepts the powers of darkness to become a vampire. In the 1890s, clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to enact the sale of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A bloody visual feast (...)This Dracula could have been less heavy and more deliciously evil than it is, but it does offer a sumptuous engorgement of the senses."
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A somewhat dispersed and overcrowded story line that remains fascinating and often affecting thanks to all its visual and conceptual energy."
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It has big names, a big budget, big sets, a big, thundering score and even big hair. But it doesn't do it. It doesn't excite or fascinate"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Dracula has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft. It's surprising, entertaining and always just a little too much"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Faced with narrative confusions and dead ends, I enjoyed the movie simply for the way it looked and and felt (...) The movie is an exercise in feverish excess (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Anthony Quinn The Independent	"What keeps the enterprise alive is the brio and daring of [Coppola's] movie-making technique: the virtuoso touches are inimitably his own."
		Alan Jones Radio Times	"Eerie, romantic and operatic, this exquisitely mounted revamp of the undead legend is a supreme artistic achievement (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A horror film that substitutes eye-popping sensation for genuine dramatic power (...) The director has dressed up a classic tale in mesmerizing visual overkill without coming close to its dark heart."
		Tom Hibbert Empire	"Has a film ever promised so much yet delivered so little? (...) An overly long bloated adaptation (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"One of the strangest-looking Hollywood films of its time, both opulent and handmade"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"This is Coppola the master showman, the conjurer and maestro, directing at full tilt"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Coppola's brash movie feels more fun now than it did 30 years ago, and Oldman's performance is outstanding (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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