
Empire Magazine
Forster's poised direction, as well as powerful turns from Billy Bob Thornton and the Oscar-winning Halle Berry, make this compelling viewing.
Full reviewAfter a family tragedy, a racist prison guard (Billy Bob Thornton) re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife (Halle Berry in an Oscar-winning role) of the last prisoner he executed.
Forster's poised direction, as well as powerful turns from Billy Bob Thornton and the Oscar-winning Halle Berry, make this compelling viewing.
Full reviewA serious movie made by seriously talented people, and I never quite came round to it.
Full reviewThe movie has the complexity of great fiction, and requires our empathy as we interpret the decisions that are made.
Full reviewMonster's Ball is bolstered by a poetic, intelligent sensibility not seen in an American film since Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
Full reviewThis is one of those rare movies in which even people glimpsed only for a moment or two seem to have lives that ramify beyond the screen, as if the story were being witnessed rather than dramatised.
Full reviewGiven the deliberate scarcity of action and dialogue, the actors are forced to rely heavily upon their interior lives, and more than deliver the goods.
Full reviewMonster's Ball is available to stream in Australia now on Stan and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.
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