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Movie Review for Monster's Ball
Movie Review for
Monster's Ball
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Monster's Ball | | |
| Also known as: | A l' Ombre de la haine, Monster Ball, Monsters Ball, Monster |
39 Reviews total.
Release date: 12/26/2001
Run length: 111 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Romance
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Thriller
Summary:
Hank, an embittered prison guard, lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his own twentysomething son, Sonny. Hank and Sonny work for the local prison where they are preparing the electric chair for a black inmate. After the man is executed, Hank falls in love with Leticia, the inmate's widow. This emotionally-charged affair forces Hank to re-evaluate how deeply prison work and his father's infectious hatred have affected his soul.
Reviews of Monster's Ball
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
Director Marc Forster shapes his love story like a master potter, forming a story of pure love, u...
By
Ben Falk
of BBC (8/0)
Intimate, gruelling, and in some strange way, uplifting.
By
Bridget Byrne
of Boxoffice Magazine (8/0)
Well-told, sad and funny and ultimately uplifting.
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
...has the complexity of great fiction, and requires our empathy as we interpret the decisions th...
By
Karina Montgomery
of Cinerina (8/0)
Please read review - I cannot summarize my amazement.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (8/0)
An unusual romance of unlikely people with Halle Berry in a stunning new and mature role.
Reviews of Monster's Ball
By
Tom Block
of culturevulture.net (8/0)
an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime’s worth of bad habits by 'opening up.'
By
Michael Rechtshaffen
of E! Online (8/0)
...thanks to a pair of remarkable performances by Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry, this tricky...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
Though marred by script that telegraphs its messages, this drama still manages to tell a compelli...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
Forster is confident enough in his script and actors, as well he should be, and is content to let...
By
Jeremiah Kipp
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
Forster's glib presentation of interracial skin's allure feels ignorant and borderline offensive.
By
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
of Goatdog's Movies (8/0)
An emotionally devastating movie.
Reviews of Monster's Ball
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (8/0)
Might even be worth a look when it comes out on cable sometime next year. But it's not worth a tr...
By
Ross Anthony
of Hollywood Report Card (8/0)
mostly resides in a mood of loss, somberness and prejudice, with a tender tiny beating heart of h...
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (8/0)
Even if the last half gets bogged down in the cinematic equivalent of quicksand, the first half i...
By
JoBlo
of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (7/1)
Great directing, awesome performances and a consistently important message...
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
Using a quietly observational style, [Forster] captures fleetingly touching, sporadically horrifi...
By
Frank Ochieng
of Movie Eye (8/0)
Monster's Ball tries to put a new spin on the salt and pepper romance plot. The result: a convolu...
Reviews of Monster's Ball
By
Rex Reed
of New York Observer (6/2)
...a catalog of human misery that even the laceratingly honest, warts-and-all sweat of Halle Berr...
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
Sadness engulfs the people in this provocative drama like a dense fog, leaving them with little s...
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (8/0)
Monster's Ball drills at us the same way a dentist goes at your teeth, creating pain but for a gr...
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (8/0)
As it is, it's less than half a fine movie. The great surprise is that its actors come through in...
By
Edward Guthmann
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
...dark and beautifully directed...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
A shattering motion picture that packs a wallop...with two of the year's best performances.
Reviews of Monster's Ball
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide (8/0)
A somber meditation on racism and family pathology, anchored by solid performances.
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
A somber meditation on racism and family pathology, anchored by solid performances.
By
Mike Clark
of USA Today (8/0)
...one of year's most emotionally stirring.
By
Michael Atkinson
of Village Voice (8/0)
...curiously unconvincing.
By
Jeffrey Chen
of Window to the Movies (8/0)
How nice it must be to be Hank, the strong man, swooping in to be Leticia's knight-in-shining-arm...
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
Mr. Thornton, one of the most gifted screen actors working today, outdoes himself.
Reviews of Monster's Ball
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Mark Caro
of Chicago Tribune (6/2) No reference
...has awkward moments where characters make the kind of statements you hear in movies but wouldn...
By
Kevin Thomas
of Los Angeles Times (3/5) No reference
...unpredictable and compelling...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (3/5) No reference
...packs a dramatic wallop that makes it one of the year's best movies.
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (3/5) No reference
Berry ... conveys abundant emotional information, acting up a storm.
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Glenn Kenny
of Premiere (3/5) No reference
...ahead of our time.
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Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/1) No reference
Under Forster's taut, intelligent direction, the cast delivers subtle, complex and realistic perf...
Reviews of Monster's Ball
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Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (3/5) No reference
...unique and unforgettable.
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Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (4/4) No reference
Like an exposed nerve -- raw, intensely painful and keenly aware of its surroundings.
By
John A. Nesbit
of ToxicUniverse.com (7/1) No reference
Thornton and Berry deliver the goods here convincingly, making Monster’s Ball one of the top film...
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