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The Crucible
Directed by
Nicholas Hytner
PG-13
1996
2h 3m
Drama
,
History
6.8
72%
66%
6.6
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A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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Cast of The Crucible
Daniel Day-Lewis
John Proctor
Winona Ryder
Abigail Williams
Paul Scofield
Judge Thomas Danforth
Joan Allen
Elizabeth Proctor
Bruce Davison
Reverend Parris
Rob Campbell
Reverend Hale
Jeffrey Jones
Thomas Putnam
Peter Vaughan
Giles Corey
Karron Graves
Mary Warren
Charlayne Woodard
Tituba
Frances Conroy
Ann Putnam
Elizabeth Lawrence
Rebecca Nurse
George Gaynes
Judge Samuel Sewall
Mary Pat Gleason
Martha Corey
Robert Breuler
Judge Hathorne
Rachael Bella
Betty Parris
Ashley Peldon
Ruth Putnam
Tom McDermott
Francis Nurse
John Griesemer
Ezekiel Cheever
Michael Gaston
Marshal Herrick
The Crucible Ratings & Reviews
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Then there's always Mr. Scofield, bringing an almost unbearable, yet entirely believable, lightness of spirit to his loathsome character. It's a bold stroke by a great actor, making zealotry and evil seem positively beneficent.
Newsweek
David Ansen
I recommend Hytner's movie highly, but a part of me resists a work that makes the audience feel as noble in our moral certainty as the characters it invites us to deplore. Some part of its power seems borrowed from the thing it hates.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Her cheeks flush, her winsome beauty seared with erotic rage, Ryder exposes the real roots of the piece. Forget McCarthyism; The Crucible is a colonial Fatal Attraction.
Seattle Times
Misha Berson
Too bad, though, that The Crucible fails to probe deeper into the sexual, religious, and political conditions that can give false accusations so much power -- even today.
AV Club
Stephen Thompson
Arthur Miller's screenplay keeps everything nice and faithful to the period, and the actors have the dirt on their hands to prove it. The movie lacks polish as well, and that's to everyone's benefit.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
I very much admire how Hytner... keeps the pace swift and doesn't fetishize the 17th-century decors and clothes. But I can't help feeling that in more ways than one, The Crucible is a period piece.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
What happened in long-ago Salem does still seem to matter.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Handsome and well-acted, the film's ultimate success depends on the heat between Ryder and Day-Lewis, and it simply isn't there. The attraction is fatal alright, but it certainly doesn't seem mutual.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Neither the establishing dramatic linchpin nor the final conversion of conscience is terribly convincing, leaving this pared-down rendition of the original work diminished in power and meaning as well.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Nothing in the movie is quite up to Scofield's Danforth. But what a mighty performance that is!
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Day-Lewis, Ryder and Scofield will be odds-on favorites for Oscar nominations, as will the movie itself.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
There's an awful, piercing truth in the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen and Paul Scofield as members of a community destroyed by guilt, paranoia and betrayal.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
This stirring film lets you feel the heat of Miller's argument and the urgent power of his kick.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Despite these involving moments, The Crucible finally seems too schematic, more useful as an allegory than as drama, and possibly owing that undoubted popularity to its simplistic qualities as much as its insights into group psychology.
USA Today
Mike Clark
With a head on its shoulders and the rawest emotions in its craw, Arthur Miller's stage hit The Crucible has become a cinematic grabber for grown-ups -- without that castor oil taste.
Washington Post
Lloyd Rose
None of these performers is bad, but what they're doing is shallow and ultimately uninteresting.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The first scene in "The Crucible'' strikes the first wrong note.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Surrounded by some phenomenal acting performances, the weaknesses in Ryder's technique become more blatant. She begins at a feverish pitch and never lets up from there.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Though Hytner remains essentially a stage director, he makes fine use of Massachusetts locations and period interiors; some of the visual details recall Dreyer's Day of Wrath, a film that likely had an influence on Miller's play
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