Atom User Reviews for Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary

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Niah Vivier

Never got to see it on the big screen in 2005. Every but as moving as ever. Absolutely heartbreaking story. Career best performances all around, especially Heath Ledger. RIP. One of the most talented actors to have lived.

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Ada Alozie

The acting was out of this world

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Trisha Mondelus
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Steve Carley
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Shenyao Ke
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Jerry Willard
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James Shandrowski
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Michael Hurtado
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Pádraic Laven
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Metacritic

50

Takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive.

Stephanie Zacharek
Salon
75

Isn't for everyone, but for those who are not bothered by the homosexual relationship, it offers a study in yearning, love, and loss. It didn't affect me as deeply as either The Bridges of Madison County or The Remains of the Day, but it evokes some of the same feelings.

Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
100

There's neither coyness nor self-importance in Brokeback Mountain--just close, compassionate observation, deeply committed performances, a bone-deep feeling for hardscrabble Western lives. Few films have captured so acutely the desolation of frustrated, repressed passion.

Metacritic review by David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek