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English Patient, The (1996) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give English Patient, The (1996) a score of 2.8626 out of 4

based on (142) reviews

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Excellent

(36)

Very Good

(78)

Good

(19)

Fair

(1)

Poor

(8)

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Salon (Gary Kamiya)

Minghella, by brilliantly editing the romantic scenes down to a few jagged, archetypal moments, captures something of the sacred whirlwind....read the complete English Patient, The (1996) review at Salon (Gary Kamiya)

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Bad Movie Night

The movie stars Ralph Fiennes as a Austrian nobleman, Count László Almásy, who is crispy-fried from a plane wreck, gets hauled away from North Africa and ends up in the care of Juliette Binoche, a French nurse named Hana who has just lost a bunch of...read the complete English Patient, The (1996) review at Bad Movie Night

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Boston Review (Alan A. Stone)

When Saul Zaentz spotted "plangent" in the first paragraph of Anthony Minghella's original screenplay for The English Patient, he knew it was a deal breaker. Zaentz, a hands-on producer, has specialized in bringing "haute culture" to the screen without...read the complete English Patient, The (1996) review at Boston Review (Alan A. Stone)

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Chris Webb

I did not enjoy "The English Patient," and I find it hard to believe that most critics were so swept away by this transparent overthetop movie. This film follows the story of Count Laszlo Almasy (Fiennes) after some sort of debilitating accident which...read the complete English Patient, The (1996) review at Chris Webb

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Richard Matich

A RETRO REVIEW BY: RICHARD MATICH I was in the local puplic library near my home. The librarian [an older woman] and I were disscusing the films we had liked in 1996. I said that this movie, The English Patient, was both beutiful, epic, and told in a...read the complete English Patient, The (1996) review at Richard Matich

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