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www.filmcritic.com - : Based on Umberto Eco’s dense and demanding bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is basically a love letter to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unfortunately, the film version never passes up an opportunity to remind us of that fact. more...
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2.5/
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reviews.imdb.com - : William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his novice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), arrive in 1327 in a remote Benedictine abby of northern Italy. The abby is a gloomy place with secret passages and dark corridors; it is located on top of a steep hill, and the first news these two Franciscan brothers who are guests of the abbott (Lonsdale) hear, is that one of the monks mysteriously died. So begins this gothic mystery, based on Umberto Eco's witty novel more...
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C+
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : In the first few scenes of ''The Name of the Rose,'' we realize that this will be a movie about a contest between the two kinds of monks. more...
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2.5/
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