Pleasantville (1998) Critic Reviews
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The kind of parable that encourages us to re-evaluate the good old days and take a fresh look at the new world we so easily dismiss as decadent.Read the full review
Ingeniously conceived and impressively executed, Pleasantville is a provocative, complex and surprisingly anti-nostalgic parable.Read the full review
Ingenious fantasy.Read the full review
Not only is Pleasantville a satire, a fantasy, and a visual marvel, but it's the best kind of feel-good movie.Read the full review
To concentrate on the minor faults of a fable as beautiful and unusual as Pleasantville would be missing the point.Read the full review
I can't get over the nagging feeling that Pleasantville's beguiling spell was cast by a real magician, only to be carelessly broken by the same clumsy charlatan.Read the full review
Lacks the edge and depth of a truly inspired work.Read the full review
Technical elegance and fine performances mask the shallowness of a story as simpleminded as the '50s TV to which it condescends; certainly it's got none of the depth, poignance, and brilliance of "The Truman Show," the recent TV-is-stifling drama that immediately comes to mind.Read the full review
Glum and preachy.Read the full review
Ross' missive is earnest and well-intentioned, but it's difficult not to feel that his film both runs on too long and overreaches its dramatic resources in its attempt to deliver it.Read the full review
