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80
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59
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Copying Beethoven has an ace up its sleeve: the wonder and drama of the Ninth Symphony itself (heard here in Bernard Haitink's tremendous 1996 recording with the Royal Concertgebouw).Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

Topped with that messy salt-and-pepper wig that frames and obscures his scowling, searching face, [Harris] invests Beethoven with a violent turbulence that sometimes floods the room but mostly stays coiled inside, where it seethes.Full Review

Manohla Dargis
The New York Times

The movie is completely beguiling, and it delivers joy, the beautiful spark of the gods.Full Review

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

There are two reasons to see - and hear - Agnieszka Holland's Copying Beethoven. One is Ed Harris' performance as the nearly deaf and totally egocentric Ludwig van; the other is a cherry-picked 10-minute chunk of the composer's soaring Ninth Symphony.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

Like an old college wrestler, Harris saunters through this toasty little piece of biographical fiction in love with the part's fixins'.Full Review

Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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