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Meet Joe Black
PG (SINGAPORE)
1999
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4.5
Long but never boring, spiritual but never soggy, this is the brand of big entertainment Hollywood is best at but so rarely does right these days.
Rob's Movie Vault
3.0
In essence, its a fish out of water comedy, like Topper or Big, but with a woozy layer of metaphysical sentimentality.
EW
3.8
That at least leads to the novelty of a rare movie love scene where the camera is focused on the mans face, not the womans.Actresses have become skill ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Although she doesnt know that, Joe still doesnt seem like the charmer she met earlier, coming off as a little stiff. (
3.5
Its an elegiac love story from beyond the grave, as appealingly simple as it is emotionally complex.
1.5
But as directed by Martin Brest, who last made Scent of a Woman, Meet Joe Black doesnt even have time for such charming diversions.
The New York Times
4.0
Long but never boring, spiritual but never soggy, this is the brand of big entertainment Hollywood is best at but so rarely does right these days.
E Film Critic
3.0
Critique: Despite it being too long, too slow, and not all together believable, this film still manages to whip up a kernel of cinematic magic with th ..
JoBlo
2.5
The problem is: this light parabolic vehicle is weighed down by a tediously slow pace and overwrought production values.
Spirituality And Practice
1.9
Either way, the grand finale, like almost everything else in the movie, is a dud.
ReelViews
4.5
A savory, extralong feature whose obvious plotlines unfold with an almost painful slowness that somehow makes them deeper.
Chicago Reader
2.5
The Waterboy is not high concept and doesnt try to be.The humor is visual and slapstick.
1.5
glossy but overlong update of Mitchell Leisens 1934 comedy Death Takes a Holiday.
The Times
2.5
Meet Joe Black is a movie that just never seems to go anywhere and it never seems to end and all of its characters seem to be asleep.
Lariat
1.5
Martin Brests weepie is nicely played but overlong especially considering the original zipped by in under 80 minutes.
Radio Times
2.5
But the movies winning elements are squandered in hackneyed proclamations about love, passion and mortality, complete with long pauses signifying noth ..
Film Journal International ..
1.5
This isnt entirely Pitts fault because the movies four screenwriters clearly dont know what to make of Death and havent agreed on what precisely he is ..
The Guardian
0.5
Brest lets scene after scene ramble on and on, giving the picture a languid air... For everyone except the most fervent Pitt fans, this is Sominex Cin ..
Internet Reviews
1.5
Hopkins manages to make it sound Death is breaking some arcane tax law.And its three freaking hours long.
3.8
Slaters often irksome Nicholson channelling works like a charm for Boyd.
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
The pacing is slow and deliberate, to be sure, but it was never boring, and felt more true to life because of this.
The Movie Boy
1.5
The uncharitable could make mileage of the issue that the film upon which Meet Joe Black is based, Mitchell Leisens 1934 Paramount release Death Takes ..
Variety
3.5
And thats a shame, too, because if the damn thing were an hour shorter, I probably would have liked it a lot.Its got a fantastic cast, and is really q ..
Cnn
1.9
But underneath its convincingly glossy surface of beautiful stars, opulent production design and glamorous photography, this movie is an inconsistent, ..
Spliced Wire
3.1
This film lies somewhere between being surprisingly good and being another rusty piece of junk.
Movie Habit
1.5
Before its release, Meet Joe Black had already been condemned as the most expensive romance ever made (costing over $100 million) and thats for a movi ..
Games Radar
0.5
Ive never encountered such dramatic flatulence, never heard so many pregnant silences that dont deliver, never watched so many close ups that graze on ..
Wsj
3.5
The films ending is a terrible cop out on the part of the writers.
Film Quips Online
3.0
Video: Hussains attorney discusses limo crash Lee Kindlon, the attorney for Nauman Hussain, discusses the charges against the son of the limo owner af ..
Rochester Goes Out
0.6
Brestian (adj.) Bloated, boring, and long winded, as in Meet Joe Black is Brestian in scope and to be avoided if you have a weak bladder.
Nitrate Online
1.5
Heart attack Stroke Worse Bill doesnt know, because he doesnt bother to see a doctor to find out.
Baltimoresun
4.0
Meet Joe Black marks the latest in a succession of strong turns by Anthony Hopkins. More than even Pitt, the film serves as a showcase for the versati ..
Zaki's Corner
1.5
The film isnt completely unwatchable, thanks in large part to a film stealing performance by Anthony Hopkins.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
Meet Joe Black was a box office flub back in the late 1990s. But the three hour fantasy romance movie isnt all bad and like other cult classics like T ..
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