This film is a wonder - the best work yet by one of our most original and independent filmmakers - and after it is over, and you begin to think about it, its meanings begin to flower.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Gratifyingly complex and beautifully told, this tale explores a huge array of cultural, racial, economic and familial tensions. In the process, it also sustains strong characters, deep emotions and clear dramatic force.Read Full Review »
100
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The performances are uncommonly fine...Lone Star isn't built to ride trends. It's built to last.Read Full Review »
90
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Leisurely yet intense (Sayles does the editing himself), Lone Star reveals a director whose mastery does nothing but increase. Perhaps now his audience will as well.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Sayles is a meditative storyteller, with a tendency to mute melodrama rather than letting it wail. But he is also one of the few filmmakers still ferreting out the strangeness and anxiety hidden beneath our poses of ordinariness. [22 July 1996, p.95]Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The payoff comes at the end, when the myriad threads pull together with a shock like a noose tightening around your neck. Built with old-fashioned craftsmanship, Lone Star is not a movie you'll quickly forget. [8 July 1996, p.64]Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Sayles cannily blends drama, romance, mystery, and social observation into a satisfying, if slightly overlong, whole. In the hands of a lesser film maker, this material could easily have degenerated into routine melodrama, but Sayles keeps it on a consistently high level.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Ken Tucker
The biggest problem with Lone Star is that colorful Charley Wade isn't the center of the movie -- it's bland Sam Deeds. Cooper isn't a compelling enough movie star to carry us along some of the film's more languid twists and turns.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
The most enjoyable John Sayles movie in recent memory.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
[A] socially conscious sprawler... Sayles' latest never bores during its 21/4-hour unreeling. But neither does it soar, despite finessing a complex flashback narrative set in 1957 and present-day. [21 June 1996, p.3D]Read Full Review »
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