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Directed By
Robert Altman
Written By:
Julian Fellowes
Cast:
Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Bob Balaban, Ryan Phillippe, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen, Jeremy Northam, Emily Watson, Richard E. Grant, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, James Wilby, Sophie Thompson, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Swift, Camilla Rutherford, Teresa Churcher, Claudie Blakley, Ron Webster, Claudie Blakley, Natasha Wrightman, Jeremy Swift
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Gosford Park (2001)
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Movie Review by Jarrod 
August 31st, 2007
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I will be frank about 'Gosford Park'. I hate it. I think it is painfully, dreadfully boring. A murder mystery that is structured in many ways like an Agatha Christie novel, it lacks the wit or the intrigue, I think, and the murder itself does not occur until what seems like hours, after we have heard what I think is tedious and insipid dialogue, spoken by characters who have nothing better to do than sit around and talk to one another. We see both the wealthy guests at a party on a country estate, and what goes on in the servants' quarters, and neither is that great.
I love Robert Altman, don't get me wrong, but this is a film I found intolerable. The superb ensemble cast features Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Bob Balaban, and other wonderful actors, but even this could not salvage it for me. Maybe I simply could not appreciate the movie's finer subtleties. I was struck by its visual style, which is authentic and beautifully realized, but that's about it. It never grabbed my attention or held my interest. Praised by many as a masterpiece, and they are indeed entitled to their favorable opinions, I find it to be one of Altman's worst. Maybe I do the film a disservice by giving it such a short and bitter review, but so be it. I had more fun watching Clue.
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