Variety
It makes no major dramatic missteps, yet it could have used an added dimension - something to make the two-hour-and-20-minute running time feel like a transformative journey rather than an epic anecdotal crusade.
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The Lost City of Z
True-life drama about Col. Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a British explorer who disappeared while searching for a mysterious Amazonian city in the 1920s. Written and directed by four-time Palme d'Or nominee James Gray (Two Lovers).
"James Gray's emotionally and visually resplendent epic tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett, the British military-man-turned-explorer whose search for a lost city deep in the Amazon grows into an increasingly feverish, decades-long magnificent obsession that takes a toll on his reputation, his home life with his wife (Sienna Miller) and children, and his very existence." (New York Film Festival)
2016Rating: M, Mature themes, violence and coarse language141 minsUSA
ActionAdventureDramaTrue Story & BiographyHistorical
- Director:
- James Gray ('The Immigrant', 'Two Lovers', 'We Own the Night')
- Writer:
- James Gray
- Cast:
- Charlie HunnamRobert PattinsonSienna MillerTom HollandAngus MacfadyenJohann MyersDaniel HuttlestoneMichael Ford-FitzGeraldEdward Ashley
The Lost City of Z / Reviews
Total Film
With lush visuals, intelligent performances and a lingering lyricism, this is an instant classic that cements Hunnam's star power.
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Time Out
The grandeur of this movie is off the charts. For a certain kind of old-school film fan, someone who believes in shapely, classical proportions and an epic yarn told over time, it will be the revelation of the year.
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The New York Times
As Fawcett presses on, walking and sailing through dense shadow, streaming light and canopies of variegated green, the natural world comes fantastically alive with strange animal cries, stirring trees, roiling fog and frighteningly violent eddies.
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Slant Magazine
The Lost City of Z links every weathered look that Percy Fawcett throws to the heart of his spiritual yearning.
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Los Angeles Times
An incandescent reminder that the world's most beautiful mysteries endure precisely because they remain unsolved.
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Hollywood Reporter
A rare piece of contemporary classical cinema; its virtues of methodical storytelling, traditional style and obsessive theme are ones that would have been recognized and embraced anytime from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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FilmInk
An engaging, provocative story of one man’s obsession, set at a time when all the corners of the maps had yet to be filled in.
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Empire Magazine
Solid and stately, a '70s-feeling jungle adventure film that's more of a thought-provoker than an excitement-inducer. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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Collider
A masterpiece. Gray turns what could have been an easy-bake nostalgia trip to Hollywood classicism-a la the original 'Mutiny on the Bounty'-into something whole contemplative, resonantly melancholic, wise, and cuttingly personal.
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