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Thin Red Line, The (1998) Movie Reviews

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

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Fair

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Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)

There are a lot of critics (many of them friends of mine) complaining about The Thin Red Line. Terrence Malick’s first film in 20 years, an adaptation of James Jones’ 1962 autobiographical novel of World War 2, is anything but a crowd-pleaser. Even...read the complete Thin Red Line, The (1998) review at Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)

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Writer/director Terrence Malick, known as the J.D. Salinger of the movies, is the nearmythic Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, former journalist and philosophy professor who has exiled himself from Hollywood's film industry for nearly two decades after...read the complete Thin Red Line, The (1998) review at IMDB.com

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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, The (1998) review at LA Weekly (Manohla Dargis)

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Cinematter (Matt Williams)

A study in pretension, The Thin Red Line marks the infamously reclusive director Terrence Malick's anticlimactic return to the cinema. On the surface, the film is a war movie, based on the James Jones novel of the same name. But, this film has no real...read the complete Thin Red Line, The (1998) review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)