Che
IFC Films | Release Date: December 12, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed here. Read full review
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Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Although Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che may have an epic running time of almost 4-1/2 hours, its scope is surprisingly narrow. Read full review
50
TimeRichard Corliss
In the end, the Cuban newspaper was nearly right: it's not the Castro character but the whole of this grand, doomed experiment that lacks "charisma and depth." Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Che is an impressive physical feat, but especially in the second part, which gives you day after day of rebels being killed and indigenous poor people not joining the good fight, you start to look forward to Che getting riddled by bullets. The whole movie is a forced march. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
What potentially could have been the greatest asset possessed by Che - its unapologetic length - turns into its greatest detriment. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
It would be comforting, and tidy, to suggest that the director had waited all his life for the chance to make this film, as if it meant everything to him; yet I still have no idea what truly quickens his heart, and at some level, for all the movie’s narrative momentum, Che retains the air of a study exercise--of an interest brilliantly explored. How else to explain one's total flatness of feeling at the climax of each movie? Read full review
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Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The title and length suggest a biographical epic, but it's neither biographical nor epic. It's as if the director, Steven Soderbergh, wanted to take tissue samples of Ernesto Che Guevara's political life. Read full review
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