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100
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The New York Times
One of the most spectacular entertainments in years.
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100
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USA Today Mike Clark
Tempers moments of despair with deliriously romantic passages abetted by James Horner's traditionally lush score and photography by John Toll ("Legends of the Fall's" Oscar winner).
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100
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Offeris an exhilarating, and occasionally touching, experience that has viewers leaving the theater caught up in an afterglow of wonder. These days, heros like William Wallace are as rare as motion picture displays of this high, uncompromising quality.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
An action epic with the spirit of the Hollywood swordplay classics and the grungy ferocity of "The Road Warrior."
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88
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
At its best, it's an exhilaratingly grandiose Highland fling. [24 May 1995, Tempo, p.1]
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70
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Washington Post
A completely adequate modern facsimile of the classic romantic epic.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Braveheart features some of the most enthralling combat sequences in years, and the excessive ferocity of the violence is part of the thrill.
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60
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Los Angeles Times
Never tries to confuse our loyalties or question the strategies of our hero or bring home the all-embracing soul-destroying horrors of war for all sides. Braveheart may be rip-roaring, but it isn't all that brave.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Braveheart comes up short by beating the drums of human treachery and violence so loudly they become assaults.
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20
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
A rambling disappointment.
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