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The Interpreter
Directed by
Sydney Pollack
PG-13
2005
2h 8m
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A United Nations translator overhears an assassination plot.
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The Interpreter Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The film's themes are disappointingly vague and unspecific, built around a fictitious African country that stands for anywhere -- and consequently nowhere.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A political thriller afraid of politics and bereft of thrills.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, but it too often gets mired in its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I was steadily absorbed by The Interpreter, even though much of the plot didn't make a great deal of sense.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Some will even name drop, equating the sequence to some of the best ever put together by directors like Sturges, Dassin, Polanski, Frankenheimer and, the master of all things suspenseful, Hitchcock.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
While it pains me to beat up on Pollack, who, in addition to being a consistently wonderful actor, is at least attempting to make movies the old-fashioned way, it pains me more to actually sit through his movies.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
As a straight-ahead thriller, the movie is enjoyable and stirring much of the time.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
You're left with admirable, even noble, wreckage, but wreckage it is.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Ticks along like a freshly wound-up clock, smart and precise, keeping its audience just breathless enough not to notice that more than two hours have passed.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's hard to know what is more impressive, the artistry of The Interpreter or the sheer craft of it.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
An intelligent, old-fashioned nail-biter.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
An uncommonly well-crafted political thriller.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Pollack drives this movie as if it's a well-tuned automobile, taking turns smoothly, accelerating at the right moments then easing off the gas pedal without ever losing momentum.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
When the film trusts the audience, The Interpreter is an intriguing outing.
CNN.com
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Top-notch entertainment.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Chokes on its well-meant outrage and leaves a moth-eaten plot and handful of nonsense characters on its way to a dopey finish.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Fairly decent entertainment.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
An exceedingly smart thriller that flirts with political reality, something you don't expect in a Hollywood film as slick as this one.
Premiere Magazine
Peter Debruge
A big-budget conspiracy thriller of the variety Hollywood seldom makes anymore, The Interpreter is slick, well-acted, and smarter than it has to be.
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