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starstarstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar John Anderson - Newsday
starstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Tom Block - culturevulture.net
starstar Barbara Shulgasser - Chicago Tribune

It is a remarkably assured and graceful work for a first film

- Kevin Thomas

As one muddled moment follows another, as ordinarily good actors recite bad dialogue and punch their way through unlikely plot developments, you begin to suspect a fundamentally inept script

- Barbara Shulgasser

A Map of the World

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Based on Jane Hamilton's novel, a woman (Sigourney Weaver) is imprisoned when she's accused of abusing a young child. Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Ron Lea, Arliss Howard, Chloe Sevigny, Louise Fletcher, Dara Perlmutter, Kayla Perlmutter, Marc Donato, Hayley Lochner, Nicole Parker, Victoria Rudiak. Director: Scott Elliott (1999, R)

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