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"The Man Who Cried"
(Reviewed May 13, 2001)
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The first 10 minutes of this movie are terrific, showing a little Russian girl abandoned by her bound-for-America father, and the girl's sad journey from her burned village to a foster home in England. But when it switches to the grown-up version of the girl (Christina Ricci, looking boringly blank faced, sullen, and way too earnest for her own good), the movie goes straight to hell. Johnny Depp is as dull as a mannequin, and the by-the-numbers machinations of the whole Holocaust veneer are sickeningly cheesy, cliche and obvious. An amazingly stupid and stultifyingly cynical movie.
Back Row Grade: F
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