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"Brokeback Mountain takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"For all its brave beginnings and real achievements -- its assault on western mythology, its discovery of a subversive sexual honesty in an unexpected locale -- Brokeback Mountain finally fails to fully engage our emotions."
-- Richard Schickel, TIME MAGAZINE
"I love gay people and I love a lot of gay movies - just not this one."
-- Kevin N. Laforest, MONTREAL FILM JOURNAL
2/5 "An inert disappointment."
-- Phil Hall, FILM THREAT
"So much for down and dirty."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Ang Lee's formalism is so extreme that it's often laughable, and the sex is depicted as a holy union: Gay love has never been so sacred."
-- David Edelstein, SLATE
"Brokeback Mountain is an epic love story about gay cowboys and that, in itself, is something. Otherwise, the film is not one to get particularly excited over."
-- Marcy Dermansky, ABOUT.COM
"Ultimately suffocates on its own good taste."
-- Kevin Courrier, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Heath Ledger's extraordinary. . . though Lee's passion for this project seems several degrees cooler."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The movie is too tame and too clumsy to be worth much outside its "groundbreaking" status."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID
It's not that great. Hyped up.
And I just clicked on a link that turned out to be a sound clip and now people are making fun of me. Great.
-Rudey
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