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starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Jane Sumner - Dallas Morning News
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Gemma Files - Film.com
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar Bob Campbell - Seattle Times
star Jonathan Foreman - NY Post

“[R]anks with such celebrated, savagely beautiful '60s celebrations of life's wilder side as Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch”

- Michael Wilmington

“[A]n exercise in self-congratulation pretending to be a brave statement for art, free expression and sexual liberation”

- Jonothan Foreman

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Based on 18th century erotic writer Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) and his relationship with a virgin laundress (Kate Winslet). The film offers endorsements for art, freedom and sexuality and denounces science, religion and censorship. Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Michael Jenn. Director: Philip Kaufman (2000, R)
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