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Mystic River

2003

Clint Eastwood

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne ...

8.0

137,888

Mystery. Drama When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn), Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins) and Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much ever happened in their neighborhood. That is, until Dave was forced to take the ride that would change all of their lives forever. 25 years later, the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"His film sneaks up, messes with your head and then floors you. You can't shake it. It's that haunting, that hypnotic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Clint Eastwood's masterwork (...) An overpowering piece of work that involves some of the most basic human emotions (...) A story, both on the page and on the screen, with an exact sense of place"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie uses a group of gifted actors who are able to find true human emotion in a story that could have been a whodunit, but looks too deeply and evokes too much honest pain (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Eastwood's drama is substantial, but monolithic, like a handsome, well-made piece of traditional American furniture."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Mystic River' is the rare American movie that aspires to -- and achieves -- the full weight and darkness of tragedy (...) Eastwood has found actors who can bear the weight and illuminate the abyss their characters inhabit"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"While not quite the equal of the novel, it's more complex, emotionally-charged and better acted than the average Hollywood thriller (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Not only is the film the director’s best work since his undervalued 'A Perfect World', it’s also one of the most spiritually profound works to come out of the Hollywood studio system in quite some time (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"The performances pull you through, or rather 'performance', for despite everyone's excellent work, it's Penn's heavy-lidded, dead-behind-the-eyes turn that overshadows all (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"Yet for all its missteps, 'Mystic River' gets the big things right (...) He makes death shocking and momentous (...) This is his finest film."	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"The actors match the gravity of their surroundings, Robbins balancing barely concealed anger with unconcealed pain, Penn beautifully capturing a man who's fought his way into goodness"	POS

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