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The Life of David Gale

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United States, Germany, United Kingdom · 2003
Rated R · 2h 10m
Director Alan Parker
Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Rhona Mitra
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

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Miami Herald by Connie Ogle

There's no real artistry to this: It's as though Parker has just seen "Seven" and suffered some sort of David Fincher flashback.

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Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

A new low for director Alan Parker, this trite mystery thriller does for capital punishment what his "Mississippi Burning" did for civil rights: with its muddled message, liberal piety, and slick Hollywood plot mechanics.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

The film's greatest asset is Linney, whose prickly, finely calibrated performance as the doomed Harraway makes her loss resonate more powerfully than any of the point-counterpoint rhetoric.

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Film Threat by Michael Dequina

Bad movies are easy to make, but as this overheated and self-defeating propaganda piece shows, it takes a genuinely talented group of people to come up with the most astonishing botch jobs.

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Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

Positively reeks of self-importance -- the jokey, ham-fisted, pseudo-socially relevant, punch-pulling kind. It reeks worse of acting -- the Jack-Lemmon-in-a-coma Kevin Spacey kind.

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