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starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstarstar Arthur Lazere - culturevulture.net
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Michael Dequina - The Reel Site
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Edvins Beitiks - SF Examiner
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Charles Taylor - Salon
starstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post

There isn’t a film this year that’s more alive with heart, richness, and commitment

- Jay Carr

There is hardly a moment during this overlong, stunningly smug exercise in moral self-satisfaction when you actually care about a character, real or invented

- Jonathan Foreman

Cradle Will Rock

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The events surrounding the staging of a play sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal Theatre Project, and the communism scare that brought the program to an end. Hank Azaria, Ruben Blades, Bill Murray, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Philip Baker Hall, Cherry Jones. Director: Tim Robbins (1999, R)

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