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The Wings of the Dove
1998
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The Wings of the Dove
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17
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3.0
Undeniably a modernization of James, The Wings of the Dove is also a great film the finest Masterpiece Theatre movie ever made.
EW
3.0
Undeniably a modernization of James, The Wings of the Dove is also a great film the finest Masterpiece Theatre movie ever made.A
EW
4.4
The film is acted with great tenderness.If the three central characters had been more forthright, more hedonistic, we wouldnt care nearly as much.
Rogerebert
5.0
Gorgeous Wings Takes Fresh Flight / Bonham Carter excels in lush period drama WINGS OF THE DOVE: Period drama.Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roa ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
In the moral universe of Henry Jamess fiction, people are far too concerned about money and manners.
Spirituality And Practice
4.4
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
4.5
Laramie Movie Scope: The Wings of the Dove Of love and the price of money by Robert Roten, Film Critic March 15, 1998 The Wings of the Dove is a compl ..
Lariat
5.0
The dialogue in Hossein Aminis script is spare while the action is relatively economical.
Film Journal International ..
4.5
almost a sort of turn of the century Indecent Proposal... But though the eloquent screenplay brings to the surface the eroticism James only hinted at, ..
Internet Reviews
4.5
And Merton reveals that I dont believe in any of the things I write about.
3.5
If watching colorful paint dry gives you a thrill, this is the movie for you.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.4
More prudish viewers may find the bloody action repugnant, but the gruesome, almost cartoonish, nature of the violence is exactly what makes Verhoeven ..
Mr Brown Movies
5.0
The Wings of the Dove flies high in a year when a whole lot of mega buck movies barely got off the ground. Its exquisite and very adult entertainment.
Cnn
4.0
But its not without its problems.It moves pretty slowly, it is terribly brooding, and it takes a while for the momentous amount of exposition to give ..
Film Quips Online
2.5
Simply a film that did not rub me at all, much less the wrong way.
Need Coffee
3.0
But its script fails to develop the central characters enough for us to care much about them.
Looking Closer
3.0
Secret desires and emotional violence lurk beneath the surface of the story, and the desires are not fully understood by the characters themselves.
About Film
1.5
The formula is, if you like formula movies, a great movie formula.
Ny Books
4.5
All of this intrigue is played out against the most romantic of backgrounds.
Hartford Courant
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