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starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Norman Green - Film.com
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Edvins Beitiks - SF Examiner
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Stephen Hunter - Washington Post

Vast ambition, huge resources and technical genius mated to a unique and compelling vision of life

- Michael Wilmington

A big, fat, gorgeous, mesmerizing mess, in a variety of tones and colors with a variety of obscure goals and moments of high kitsch

- Stephen Hunter

The Thin Red Line

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Based on the novel by James Jones, it depicts the U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal and subsequent battles with Japanese soldiers. Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, John Cusack, George Clooney, John Travolta, Adrien Brody, Jared Leto. Director: Terrence Malick. (1998, R)

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