Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: December 10, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2
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75
On many levels, it hits its marks -- but it still misses the impact of some shorter, less-ambitious movies that play with our emotions more deftly or deeply, walk their miles, deadly or not, with a lighter, faster, more confident tread.
75
A very engrossing movie, the kind that gives shameless manipulation a good name.
65
This jailhouse jam is quite a haul.
88
A reminder of just how good Hollywood storytelling can be.
63
Surely a life sentence goes by quicker.
75
An often pedestrian film, one that never inflates to the epic grandeur to which it aspires or transfers its own emotional trajectory off the screen and into the viewer.
100
So moving, so memorable, so magically produced, it's going to delight millions of movie fans and sweep the Oscars.