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Los Angeles Times
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0
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By Kenneth Turan
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Feb 25, 2011
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Reeling Reviews
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6
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By Robin Clifford
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Feb 25, 2011
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...the top notch acting, especially by Broadbent, gives the near-clinical analysis of the effects of Alzheimer's a human face...
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Internet Reviews
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8
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By Steve Rhodes
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Feb 25, 2011
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Quite a simple story but a heart-warming one.
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Reel Film Reviews
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6
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By David Nusair
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Feb 25, 2011
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...generally more of a showcase for several undeniably superb performances than anything else...
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Nick's Flick Picks
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6
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By Nick Davis
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Feb 25, 2011
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When Iris catches its main character's disease, our opportunities for edification are needlessly but summarily forfeited.
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ReelViews
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9
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By James Berardinelli
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Feb 24, 2011
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Those who have had a loved one fall prey to the mental ravages of Alzheimer's will see in Iris a depiction that is so lucid and accurate that it may be painful to observe.
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Houston Chronicle
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8
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By Bruce Westbrook
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Feb 24, 2011
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As the story of heroic response to tragic illness, Iris is the kind of film often cynically pegged a 'disease of the week' movie. But unlike such formulaic TV productions, Iris' heroine is denied the capacity to be inspiring.
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Washington Post
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9
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By Ann Hornaday
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Feb 24, 2011
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Not just a fitting document of a life brilliantly lived but a vibrant, almost palpitating piece of cinema.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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10
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By Edward Guthmann
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Feb 24, 2011
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The performances are the raison d'etre...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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8
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By Carrie Rickey
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Feb 24, 2011
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Because the performances are so powerful, one nearly forgets that in its vaulting between the '50s and '90s, Iris is a story with a beginning and end but without a middle.
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Globe and Mail
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6
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By Rick Groen
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Feb 24, 2011
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For a movie whose subject is the decline and fall of a towering intellect, there's precious little to think about here.
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Washington Post
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9
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By Desson Thomson
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Feb 24, 2011
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There are not two, but four sterling performances here.
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Orlando Sentinel
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6
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By Jay Boyar
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Feb 24, 2011
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[The] performances, if nothing else, embody a standard of excellence that Iris Murdoch herself would surely have cheered.
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Toronto Star
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8
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By Peter Howell
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Feb 24, 2011
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The impoverished story keeps Iris from achieving greatness, but no qualifiers are needed for the acting.
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Sacramento Bee
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6
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By Joe Baltake
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Feb 24, 2011
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What should have been a stirring, deeply absorbing character study ... emerges instead as a facile, truncated work.
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