|
100
|
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Brilliant. [24 December 1997, p. 24]
|
|
100
|
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Whether Kundun is a perfect movie or not, it's an important and beautiful one. Scorsese's movie takes us into a world we've rarely seen with this kind of sympathy or detail: a magical-looking society built on Buddhism and centuries of art and tradition.
|
|
100
|
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
A great film about a good man.
|
|
75
|
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It provides a deep spirituality, but denies the Dalai Lama humanity; he is permitted certain little human touches, but is essentially an icon, not a man.
|
|
75
|
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Stunning, odd, glorious, calm and sensationally absorbing.
|
|
75
|
USA Today Mike Clark
Stately but static. [23 December 1997, p.3D]
|
|
70
|
The New York Times Stephen Holden
It's all very beautiful, not to mentioned high-minded. But the loftiness comes at a sacrifice.
|
|
70
|
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A stunningly beautiful object offered in tribute to a holy man, a gorgeous film that is nevertheless burdened by the defects of its virtues. Careful and respectful, it is everything a movie about the Dalai Lama should be except dramatically involving.
|
|
70
|
Washington Post Desson Thomson
May not be the ultimate word on the Tibetan situation, or even the Dalai Lama, but its heart seems to be in the right place; and it's entertaining enough to give audiences an emotional sense of the story. [16 January 1998, p.N32]
|
|
50
|
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
At once spectacular and inert -- a mosaic impersonating a movie; an empty-shell epic.
|
