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Taking Sides (2003) Movie Reviews
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
After a somewhat shaky start, the film gradually settles in to become another extraordinarily powerful and explosively acted drama that deftly probes the moral responsibility of an artist in a totalitarian society....read the complete Taking Sides (2003) review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
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The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Sparked by the actors' powerful performances, Arnold's moral absolutism and Furtwängler's lofty aestheticism make for a dramatically compelling clash....read the complete Taking Sides (2003) review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
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New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Taking Sides has a padded-out, stagebound quality that is anything but lyrical. And Szabó, a Hungarian best known for "Mephisto" and "Colonel Redl," is not at his best here....read the complete Taking Sides (2003) review at New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
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Washington Post (Michael O'Sullivan)
The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia and of innocence tarnished by association are ones that have been more powerfully explored before....read the complete Taking Sides (2003) review at Washington Post (Michael O'Sullivan)
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