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Thin Red Line, The (1998) Rank 2 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Thin Red Line, The (1998) a score of 2.9315 out of 4

based on (112) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(53)

Good

(17)

Fair

(6)

Poor

(1)

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LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)

Malick dangles his maddeningly innocent ideas about life and death and man's gift for self-destruction. ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)

Jump Cut (Ekkehard Knorer)

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New York Times (Janet Maslin)

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MediaCircus (Anthony Leong)

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Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

Um, the emperor has no clothes. Well, ok, he's got some funky boxers, but the clown shoes have got to go. If he's not going to come outside for twenty years, he should at least ask somebody how he looks before he steps through the door.(DEEP breath) ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

Revenge of the Audience (Erik Gregersen)

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rec.arts.movies.reviews (David Sunga)

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Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

Depressingly clinical. ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

Depressingly clinical. ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)

Salon.com (Charles Taylor)

The Thin Red Line, either by incompetence or willful perversity, dispenses with plot, characterization, dramatic structure and emotional payoffs in favor of the sort of painstakingly composed pictorial diddling that invariably gets critics frothing about ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)

Cinemaphile.org (David Keyes)

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eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)

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AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)

The voiceovers ruminating on the nature of war, humanity, etc., are especially intrusive. It would appear that every person in the film is something of an introspective philosopher. Perhaps it is because Malick has failed to tell his story coherently or ...read the complete Thin Red Line movie review at AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)

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