The New York Times
Jonathan Demme, updating John Frankenheimer's classic exercise in cold war liberal paranoia, has made a witty, anxious thriller for a new age of political uncertainty.
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Denzel Washington leads this remake of the 1962 Frank Sinatra brainwashing political thriller, an adaptation of Richard Condon's novel.
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco (Washington) finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Less2004Rating: R129 minsUSAClinica Estetico, Paramount, Scott Rudin Productions
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004) | Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle
The remake shakes down as a conventionally plotted thriller. It's the performances that make it exceptional.
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Salon
A picture that purports to have a galvanizing, liberal-minded theme... but is really just ploddingly pedestrian.
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Vulture
Far from a disgrace, but it's not freewheeling enough, not strange enough to make sense of our gathering dread.
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Chicago Reader
About the cleverest imaginable transliteration of the story from its historical moment to ours.
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Empire Magazine
Impressively accomplished and highly entertaining, with sufficiently smart new twists to keep you guessing...
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