The Liberator
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: October 3, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghOct 2, 2014
How disappointing that a movie about challenging authority should be such a slave to convention. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleLouis BlackOct 1, 2014
The film is vast and epic, featuring sprawling rivers, awe-inspiring landscapes, serious military campaigns, and the rich political and ideological history of the period. Still, without sufficient context, the films swirls grandly but without making much meaning. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloOct 1, 2014
It’s an equally fiery, magnetic star turn, but being trapped in a stolid, unimaginative, and simplistic example of the genre — a typical historical biopic, in other words — saps a surprising amount of its strength. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldOct 2, 2014
Perhaps most impressive are the resources deployed in shooting this production. As if the film’s ostentatious aerial vistas, merely functional scene-writing and score weren’t distracting enough, Mr. Sexton’s dialogue freezes dead any simulation of the period with tone-deaf lines amid Bolívar’s impassioned rhetoric. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJordan HoffmanOct 2, 2014
Even Ramírez cannot liberate this movie from a clichéd script. Read full review
40
The DissolveVadim RizovOct 1, 2014
At best, The Liberator is a commendably old-fashioned affair that goes light on CGI backgrounds and heavy on dazzling scenery. At worst, it’s a reminder of all the extras-heavy would-be epics that got tossed on film history’s slag heap. Read full review
40
Village VoiceInkoo KangSep 30, 2014
Bolivar is eye-rollingly romanticized as a wonderful lover and an even better fighter in Alberto Arvelo's lushly produced, dully reverential The Liberator. Read full review
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