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Doctor Zhivago
1965
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Doctor Zhivago
Positive Reviews
27
Negative reviews
5
Average Rating
3.8
/5
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3.8
Although its portentous historical drama evaporates once you return to the fresh air, watching it can be seductive.
Rogerebert
4.5
Carlo Ponti production is an excellent achievement in filmmaking and seems destined for good hardticket action.
Variety
4.0
Yes its old fashioned and sappy. But its impossible not to swoon.
Time Out
1.5
One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.
The Guardian
5.0
Lean and Bolt pay tribute to a Tolstoyan ambition in Pasternaks samizdat novel, and also to a real contemporary relevance: the story of a suppressed w ..
The Guardian
4.5
Despite the grim and brooding background, Zhivago has a surging buoyant spirit that is unquenchable.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
The movie is something that should be experienced by everyone at least once in a lifetime.
1.5
Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance.
The New York Times
4.5
The love story doesnt illuminate Zhivagos vision of history the way, say, the psychological portrait of T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia makes sens ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
That said, this is a film, achingly long, that has power in its veins, a story told with vivid colour, pain, texture and a ravishing sense of the roma ..
4.0
As always, Leans handling of the purely physical aspects of the material is spectacular.
Tv Guide
1.5
Epic seems too small a word for the sweeping ambition and romance of Doctor Zhivago.
The Times
5.0
This adaptation of Boris Pasternaks classic novel has all the sweep and stateliness that characterised David Leans mastery of the epic.
Radio Times
4.0
Maurice Jarres music is as beguiling as ever and Lean squeezes all the pathos that he can out of the romance between Sharifs Yuri Zhivago and Julie Ch ..
Independent
4.5
Plays as a sweeping, episodic tale set against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian Revolution, with some of the most stunning vistas ever capt ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
Art Direction Set Decoration (color): John Box; Terry Marsh Costumes: Phyllis Dalton.
Emanuellevy
4.0
Whatever its flaws, films made with this much chutzpah last forever.
Flim List
3.0
it is to be respected for the massive success and artistry of the decade in which it was made
7M Pictures
5.0
After consulting a priest, shes convinced she must now remain with Komarovsky, even though she doesnt completely understand their relationship.
2.0
Demands everything from the viewer while offering little in return, with Lean coming across like a despised schoolmaster not wanting to open himself u ..
Lw Lies
3.8
An artist and a professional, hes also remarkably modern in his understanding of Lara.
Larsen On Film
3.0
This visually stunning epic looks like a Hallmark picture postcard.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Laborious, but beautifully crafted 193 minute opus from the master of epic cinema, David Lean.
Film 4
4.5
David Leans 1965 adaptation of Pasternaks romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesnt use its length to ..
Chicago Reader
4.5
...a passionate movie about passionate people in passionate times.
Movie Metropolis
4.5
Trouble is, he thinks hes King Kong but she doesnt want to play Fay Wray all her life.
Maclean's Magazine
1.5
The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure.
Screen Online Org Uk
4.4
Beautiful cinematography...and set design...together with excellent performances combine to form Zhivagos timeless appeal
4.5
is, in its skill and finish, everything a big picture should be and rarely is.
Vogue
4.5
David Lean has made a stunning motion picture from Boris Pasternaks Nobel Prize novel.
Pilot Online
5.0
Often the dialogue is nearly as rich as the costumes and settings.
Filmcritic.com
3.0
A triumph of great entertainment. Whether it is great filmmaking is a matter of taste.
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