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Kite Runner, The (2007) Rank 1 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Kite Runner, The (2007) a score of 2.6242 out of 4
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Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
Forster transforms a presumably brutal and nuanced account of class difference and innocence lost into Disney-style kitsch. ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Black Star News (Kam Williams)Black Star News (Kam Williams)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Yet another coming-of-age story, with complex emotions and developments distilled into simplistic cliches; it's as middle-of-the-road as they come. ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for kids-in-mindkids-in-mind
An Afghani man (Khalid Abdalla) now living in America, remembers growing up in Afghanistan at a time when children took great pleasure in kite flying, before the Taliban took power and banned the activity. When he returns after receiving a call from an ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at kids-in-mind
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 1.00 out of 4 stars for NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 0.80 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Manohla Dargis)New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Mr. Forster has been soundly defeated by The Kite Runner . Despite the film’s far-flung locations, there is remarkably little of visual interest here; the setups are banal, and the scenes lack tension, which no amount of editing can provide." ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 0.80 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Manohla Dargis)New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Mr. Forster has been soundly defeated by The Kite Runner . Despite the film's far-flung locations, there is remarkably little of visual interest here; the setups are banal, and the scenes lack tension, which no amount of editing can provide. ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
Kite Runner, The (2007) scores a combined 0.75 out of 4 stars for Time Out New York (Ben Kenigsberg)Time Out New York (Ben Kenigsberg)
Khaled Hosseini’s engaging best-seller cries out for a film treatment on an epic scale. But with his uneven, awards-baiting adaptation, Marc Forster seems a tourist both culturally and dramatically. The sledgehammer sentimentality of his Monster’s Bal ...read the complete Kite Runner movie review at Time Out New York (Ben Kenigsberg)
 
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Kite Runner, The (2007) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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