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Made with a gee-whiz earnestness and simplicity that's so out of style it's refreshing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Others are more wary of the movie's syrupy core: David Denby says the film is "borderline corny, but I was held by it; I was even moved by it" ( The New Yorker ), and David Edelstein in
"[E]verything a movie about the Dalai Lama should be except dramatically involving" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The New Yorker 's Louis Menand says that despite surface differences, it's just another Scorsese "guy" flick: "Kundun is Casino with Buddhists."
The film is an understated but moving depiction of the day to day existence of an intelligent young woman growing up in France and later America and is praised as having "captured something true about families and friendship" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Kris Kristofferson's performance as the novelist-father is called the best of his career.
Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."
"A wickedly funny examination of obsessive romantic behavior," says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.
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