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Before Night Falls (2000) Rank 2 Reviews
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The Boston Phoenix
Political Film Society
NY Transfer (Jon Hillson)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies (Mr. Cranky)
Miradas desde el Sur (Leonel Delgado Aburto)
The (Georgetown) Hoya
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Under Schnabel's direction, it becomes stilted and static, if not simplistic. ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Alberto Cassani)
El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
cinEncanto (José Martín Sulaimán)
Boxoffice Magazine
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)
Before Night Falls was a worthwhile viewing experience, though not necessarily one that I'll feel the need to revisit. I appreciated getting an insight into life in Cuba from an objective point of view; the film clearly shows what Arenas suffered there, ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)
Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)
Saddled with a wandering opening and an equally listless conclusion, a more fitting name for this two hour-plus biopic might well be Before Night Falters . ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Entertainment Today (Brent Simon)
Reno Gazette-Journal (Forrest Hartman)
The cinematography is beautiful and clearly shows the director’s artistic bent, but the storytelling is often disjointed. . . . Ultimately, Before Night Falls is more successful as a Javier Bardem showcase than a movie. ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Reno Gazette-Journal (Forrest Hartman)
Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
[Bardem] simply does what the script calls for him to do, which is basically sustain a look of pain for two-hours plus. ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Mr. Brown's Movies (Michael Dequina)
Steve Rhodes
Sean Penn and Johnny Depp lend their names to the picture by turning in some nice cameos. See if you can recognize them. The rest of the supporting cast isn't the least bit memorable.Schnabel makes some unusual and frequently unsuccessful choices. The ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Steve Rhodes
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Not my cup o' tea. I was expecting to learn something from this movie. It's obviously not a film that was made to "entertain", but one which I believed would hopefully give me some more insight into the plight of Cubans back in the day, some further ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Matt's Movie Reviews (Matt Easterbrook)
All this is well and good, it's just rather boring. ...read the complete Before Night Falls movie review at Matt's Movie Reviews (Matt Easterbrook)
eFilmCritic.com (Greg Muskewitz)
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