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Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Ann Hornaday - Baltimore Sun
starstarstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Peter Brunette - Film.com
starstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstarstar Desmond Ryan - Philadelphia Inquirer
starstarstar Richard Corliss - TIME
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News

“Nick Nolte delivers a ferocious performance as a man on the edge in Affliction, Paul Schrader's sensitive and perfectly pitched adaptation of the Russell Banks novel”

- Ann Hornaday

“The story is so overwhelmingly depressing that after a while you may stop caring about the characters altogether”

- Jeff Vice

Affliction
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Nick Nolte stars as an abused child turned local cop in this stark portrayal of life in a northern New Hampshire town. With Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt, Jim True, Marian Seldes, Holmes Osborne, Brigid Tierney, Sean McCann, Wayne Robson. Director: Paul Schrader (1998, R)
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