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www.straight.com - : If, in the final analysis, Beowulf & Grendel isn’t an entirely satisfying adaptation, that probably owes more to the grandeur of the source material than to any cinematic inadequacy on the director’s part. Great literary classics virtually never get their due on celluloid. more...
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www.exclaim.ca - : Too bad this film wasn’t called Selma. Sarah Polley is luminous as the soothsaying outsider cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of her fellow Danes; there hasn’t been a cherry-haired femme fatale like this since Run Lola Run. Unfortunately, it’s called Beowulf & Grendel, and with that title come the performances that supposedly constitute the central conflict of the film. more...
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jam.canoe.ca - : As the old saw goes, ''nasty, brutish and short,'' and definitely more fun than studying Beowulf in British Literary History 101. B & G is a ludicrous movie with mad Icelandic energy, severed body parts, lots of mead, grimy imagery and real frost on the characters' breath (bring a sweater). Sarah Polley's Canadian accent is nails-on-a-blackboard, but it's all enjoyably gamy. more...
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