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...one of the most offensively cheap and concocted 'twist' endings of all time
Full Review | Original Score: D | Jan 13, 2014
Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2013
An overripe melodrama -- a time waster.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010
Manages to offend the same people it seeks to defend with the most ridiculous and nonsensical endings that I've ever seen.
Full Review | Apr 29, 2009
The filmmakers work so hard to bewilder and to preach that they give us no opportunity to think clearly about the serious life-and-death issues that the film claims to address.
Full Review | Original Score: F | Jan 15, 2005
Como suspense, o filme no desaponta. Porm, a ambiguidade moral de seus 'heris' acaba por transmitir uma mensagem oposta quela que o filme pretende defender.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2004
... [Alan] Parker lures you into the theater, but then you sit down and all he has waiting for you is a whoopee cushion.
Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 6, 2004
In arguing that calmly and deliberately taking a life can never be justified... it ends up arguing just the opposite. It's bad drama and worse politics.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2004
The film is so expertly crafted that it becomes an effective thriller. It is not, however, an indictment of the death penalty.
Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 1, 2003
It isn't long before we yearn to see David Gale as the poster-boy for deserved capital punishment.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 16, 2003
LThe Life of David Gale goes quietly into that good night during the doldrums of February, when studios discard their noble failures. . .
Full Review | Jun 5, 2003
I appear to be alone in my adoration of this strong film...
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003
Dead Man Walking if written by Charlie Kaufman.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003
. When all is said and done, The Life of David Gale is thus only worth about $8.50 on a cheap Tuesday. .
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2003
'A pesar de las infundadas crticas en su contra, Alan Parker logra un trabajo estupendamente llevado a la pantalla al que vale mucho la pena echarle un vistazo'
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2003
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