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English Patient, The (1996)

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All Time

of 190,142

1,364

1990's

of 24,698

215

1996

of 5,228

23
Drama
- Drama All Time
  
  of 37,999
  
  771
  
  Drama of 1996
  
  of 434
  
  15
  
  Drama of the 1990's
  
  of 4,160
  
  137
Romance
- Romance All Time
  
  of 6,887
  
  212
  
  Romance of 1996
  
  of 91
  
  6
  
  Romance of the 1990's
  
  of 895
  
  42
War
- War All Time
  
  of 2,149
  
  74
  
  War of 1996
  
  of 10
  
  2
  
  War of the 1990's
  
  of 119
  
  8

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English Patient, The (1996) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:2.9611

Avg Critic Score:2.8626

English Patient, The (1996) Movie Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

The kind of movie you can see twice--first for the questions, the second time for the answers. ...read the complete English Patient movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Backward into memory, forward into loss and desire, ``The English Patient'' searches for answers that will answer nothing. ...read the complete English Patient movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

This is one of the year's most unabashed and powerful love stories, using flawless performances, intelligent dialogue, crisp camera work, and loaded glances to attain a level of eroticism and emotional connection that many similar films miss. ...read the complete English Patient movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

The English Patient has an elliptical structure, beginning with the same scene that it ends with. In between, it moves several years into the future, and even further into the past. ...read the complete English Patient movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

Just so you know, "patient" refers to a man with a medical condition, not the ability to sit through a film that flirts with a three hour running time. ...read the complete English Patient movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

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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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