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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

David Lean United States, 1965
Sprawling over three painfully slow hours and including both an overture and an intermission, Lean's bombastic, prestige panorama offers little case for its masterpiece status on formal, dramatic and even superficial emotional grounds.
November 26, 2015
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Lean's superlative storytelling skills... are aided and abetted by his gift for choosing just the right cast. Only Lean could cast an Egyptian as a Russian doctor and make it work. And then there's the editing, with some of the most exhilarating scene transitions in his filmography (such as the famous clank/streetcar edit singled out by Spielberg). Though Lean's latter films are studded with brilliant moments, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is his last great film.
December 20, 2013
The Warner Home Video restoration of David Lean's 1965 epic Doctor Zhivago is a thrill to behold in the high-definition Blu-ray format. So much so that watching it, one is apt to forget or at least ignore the problematic aspects of the film. And despite those, there's a real mastery at work here of the sort that's bracing to revisit today.
April 30, 2010
David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect. It's a thin, snaky epic with more breadth than body, rather like watching an entire Masterpiece Theatre chapter play in a single sitting.
January 1, 1980
Visually impressive in a picture postcard sort of way. Otherwise an interminable emasculation of Pasternak's novel, seemingly trying to emulate Gone With the Windin romantic vacuity as Russia is torn by revolution and Sharif's Zhivago moons on about the elusive love of his life. Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.
April 23, 1966
The main appeal of Pasternak's novel is not its plot or even its theme, but rather the extravagant expression of its emotions in poetic language. Most of this poetic language has been stripped from Bolt's simplified and vulgarized screenplay, and the movie is all the poorer for it.
December 20, 1965