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Beloved
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
R
1998
2h 52m
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6.1
72%
71%
5.8
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A former slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.
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Beloved Ratings & Reviews
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elvis Mitchell
It's a daring and provocative collection of ideas and heart that needed to be better, but still has something going for it.
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
The result is an extraordinary film that is always hypnotically watchable, even as it presents the audience with scenes of harrowing pain.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Demme's Beloved is permanently heated to the boil. Rightly so, for the terrain of Toni Morrisons magisterial novel, on which the movie is based, is not the politics of slavery but its private agonies, the torture of evil turned inward against the self.
Newsday
Jack Mathews
Though the fantasy element redone sparingly in the movie, they give it the feel of a good horror-mystery.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Beloved forces the audience to look at slavery the way Schindler's List made it look at the Holocaust, and, if anything, it's even harder to watch.
Associated Press
Ted Anthony
A disappointment a hodgepodge of images and unsatisfying storytelling.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
Beloved is a good movie. With a tighter ending, a shorter running time and fewer special effects, it could have been a great one.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Beloved has moments of keening power and terrifying poetry.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
Commendably serious and uncompromising.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Although Winfrey is hardly alone up there on the screen, her individual acting achievement cannot be dismissed.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Murray
It's an ambitious epic, an A-list event that, despite a flawless pedigree, seems to prove Morrison right: Her work is unfilmable.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
What's right in Beloved is powerfully right: its portrait of a tortured mother seeking forgiveness, its shocking depiction of slavery as a wrecker of bodies and a crusher of souls. What's wrong in the film, though, is dreadfully wrong.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Beloved is a strong, dark, tangled powerhouse of a film that comes to grips with the scars of slavery as no previous American film has.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
It's a noble, ambitious failure, but a failure nonetheless.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Using overwhelmingly potent performances, audacious static close-ups, assertive lighting, and a rigorous yet lyrical interweaving of events... this terrifyingly beautiful movie blends metaphor and stark social commentary to achieve a spontaneous grace.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Demme succeeds uncannily well in bringing the novel's pulse to the screen.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
Filled with some of the most extraordinary images of recent years, Beloved was apparently too powerful for audiences to handle back in 1998.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
A movie that requires the viewer to meet it halfway. Those willing to make the effort will be rewarded with an exquisitely photographed and intricately layered drama.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Something rare: a brave film about the emotional toll of slavery, the anguish of memory and the cruel divisions that still sear African American lives.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A knot of fierce emotions that is left for the viewer to untangle. Make the effort.
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