Seven Years in Tibet
TriStar Pictures | Release Date: October 8, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
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9
Negative:
1
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60
Washington PostRita Kempley
Unfortunately, Harrer's inner struggle isn't as grand as the sweep of Jean-Jacques Annaud's direction. Read full review
60
VarietyDerek Elley
Despite some magnificent widescreen lensing, faultless ethnographic detail and a timely sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's true-life tale about a self-obsessed Austrian mountaineer who learns selflessness in the Himalayas too rarely delivers at a simple emotional level. Read full review
60
SalonDwight Garner
The bad news is that Pitt, despite this film's high-minded intentions (there are Yo-Yo Ma cello solos on the soundtrack, and China expert Orville Schell acted as an advisor during the shoot), or more likely because of them, finds himself trapped in a long, earnest movie that fails to ever feel very alive. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
An overextended, episodic disappointment. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Pitt isn't a bad actor, but he's way out of his depth and never disappears into the character -- a selfish rogue who gets a jolt of enlightenment at the feet of the Dalai Lama -- the way a superior actor like Daniel Day-Lewis might have. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
Becky Johnston ( "The Prince of Tides" ) did creditable work on the screenplay, but there are times when this story about a truly rotten fellow seems to be one big jump cut. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Though Pitt is as attractive as ever, "Seven Years" offers other things to look at and in fact functions better as a travelogue than as a drama. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Annaud has given Seven Years In Tibet an epic scope, packed with beautiful scenery, lush costumes, and elaborate sets. Which would all be well and good if they didn't often seem like the reason the movie exists. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Unfortunately, this visually sumptuous epic is the very definition of a "prestige production," swaddled in good taste and better intentions. Read full review
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