North Country
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: October 14, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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60
Village VoiceJessica Winter
Having established Josey as the focus of the entire iron range's enmity, the filmmakers panic, and North Country spectacularly self-destructs in a climactic courtroom free-for-all. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
That the film works as well as it does, delivering a tough first hour only to disintegrate like a wet newspaper, testifies to the skill of the filmmakers as well as to the constraints brought on them by an industry that insists on slapping a pretty bow on even the foulest truth. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
To see this overly schematic movie, is to be made to feel -- inaccurately as it turns out -- that the whole thing is a hopelessly exaggerated fabrication. The taint of the melodramatic techniques used in key segments infects the entire movie and makes us question the truth of a significant historical reality. Read full review
60
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
An above average film, and features fine performances (Theron and McDormand are probably stone locks for more Oscar nominations), but be wary of the advertising pointing out the film's similarities to movies like "Erin Brockovich." Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Any similarities between Josey and Lois Jenson, the real woman who made Eveleth Mines pay for their sins in a landmark 1988 class-action suit, are purely coincidental. Instead, we get a TV-movie fantasy of female empowerment glazed with soap-opera theatrics. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
What should have been an important addition to popular films about women's rights winds up being the most insulting courtroom drama since "Ally McBeal" was put out of its misery. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
A long, slow slog through what could have been, and should have been, a more absorbing story.
40
EmpireAngie Errigo
It starts off well enough but slowly sinks under the leaden weight of its worthiness. Read full review
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