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Amazing Grace

2006

Michael Apted

Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai ...

6.4

1,731

Drama Ioan Gruffudd plays Wilberforce, who, as a Member of Parliament, navigated the world of 18th Century backroom politics to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Albert Finney plays John Newton, a confidante of Wilberforce who inspires him to pursue a life of service to humanity. Benedict Cumberbatch is William Pitt the Younger, England's youngest ever Prime Minister at the age of 24, who encourages his friend Wilberforce to take up ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It is] generally pleasing and often moving, even when the story wobbles off the historical rails or becomes bogged down in dopey romance"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's dull, naive and dramatically inert (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Eddie Cockrell Variety	"Crisply told and sincerely thesped (...) Pic reflects the no-nonsense storytelling skills of prolific helmer Michael Apted"
		Michael Rowin IndieWire	"'Amazing Grace's antiseptic hagiographic mode hasn’t earned it the right to the title and music of a song that had become so closely linked to a people’s emancipation"
		Matthew Leyland BBC	"Accessibility is one of the movie's virtues: without dumbing down, it makes the workings of Parliament seem as gripping as a good suspense thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Josh Rosenblatt Austin Chronicle	"Unfortunately for Barbara and for us, what makes William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him a bore (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"

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