Intimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, and universal as first love, the PG-rated film positively palpitates with the sensual and spiritual.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Masterfully put-together, made with confidence, intelligence and command.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Campion's big-sisterly encouragement of Cornish's lovely, openhearted performance -- and Whishaw's well-matched response -- results in a character instantly, intimately recognizable to anyone remembering her own first love.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
The film works on its own as an unfussy, passionate and gently erotic love story that never tips into sentimentality.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Ms. Campion, with her restless camera movements and off-center close-ups, films history in the present tense, and her wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Bright Star is a thing of beauty and a joy for a movie season that needs it.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
What Campion does is seek visual beauty to match Keats' verbal beauty. There is a shot here of Fanny in a meadow of blue flowers that is so enthralling it beggars description.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
That rare, genuinely transporting movie that creates an alternate universe, invites the audience in and lets them sink ever deeper into its particular, sublime reverie.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Bright Star is the New Zealand writer-director's raw, sensual attempt to render Keats as experienced by a young girl who couldn't understand the genius of his verse.Read Full Review »
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