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Advertisement. The film is by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the almost unreasonably talented Mexican filmmaker whose "Amores Perros" (2000) was an enormous success. That film intercut three simultaneous stories, all centering on a traffic accident. "21 Grams" has three stories and a traffic accident, but the stories move back and forth in time ...

Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/23 Full Review Ignacio 21 grams is a movie that talks about how life and death are very dramatic things, and anyway you should be confused and ...

21 Grams: Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. With Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon. A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

21 Grams. L ike a smashed mirror, Alejandro González Iñárritu's enigmatic new movie shows us broken lives in shards of fear. At its centre is a terrible accident whose impact has shattered ...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2010. "21 Grams" commands a running discourse that runs as a constant thematic thread through all of humanity. The movie delivers life as a floating ...

21 Grams is a 2003 American psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by Arriaga and Iñárritu. The film stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny Huston and Benicio Del Toro.The second part of Arriaga's and Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death", preceded by Amores perros (2000) and followed by Babel ...

10. Sep 10, 2014. 21 Grams is the kind of "jigsaw puzzle, one piece at a time" movie that is extremely risky and confident, but might not always pay off. Luckily, 21 Grams' emotional payoff is one of the best I've ever seen. It carefully skips clichés of the genre, and tells its story with explosive acting and expertly crafted screenplay.

NYT Critic's Pick. Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 4m. By Elvis Mitchell. Oct. 18, 2003. ''21 Grams'' is a ruminative, stunned look at life after death -- that ...

Movie Review: '21 Grams' Director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu of Mexico made a name for himself last year with the film Amores Perros. That film used an unorthodox narrative structure to include ...

Variety David Rooney. Ambitiously structured in non-chronological fragments that form a fascinating puzzle, this raw drama about grief, guilt and redemption becomes ultimately overextended and overwrought in its final stretch. 60. Newsweek David Ansen. What keeps this movie honest is the characters, each of them a mass of conflicting instincts ...

Sean Penn plays a 40-something man with a failing heart, Naomi Watts plays a young woman facing great tragedy, and Benicio Del Toro plays an ex-con consumed by guilt. Penn and Watts come off as ordinary individuals reacting as anyone might under the circumstances, but Del Toro's character is particularly fascinating.

21 Grams Review. The build-up to and aftermath of a tragic accident sees three people model housewife, untrustworthy mathematics professor, born-again ex-con brought together by fate. Their lives ...

In 21 GRAMS, a terrible collision shatters more than physical objects -- it shatters the very narrative of the story itself. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu uses clusters of brief scenes that act as a mosaic, gradually revealing what happened to devastate the lives of its three leads. Paul ( Sean Penn) is dying.

This is a film that is ultimately driven by the performances of those involved and thankfully those performances are strong, engaging, and worth sitting through. 3.5 out of 5 Stars, 7/10 Score ...

A movie review by James Berardinelli. 21 Grams is a stunning kaleidoscope of a motion picture - a mosaic of images that gradually resolves itself into a powerful tale of tragedy and redemption. Not only is this one of the year's most compelling motion pictures, but, in terms of structure, it's also one of the most intriguing and unique.

Cristina (Naomi Watts), an ex-junkie, is the widow of the man whose heart Paul carries. Jack (Benicio Del Toro), the cause of the heart donor's death, is an ex-con Jesus freak and alcoholic who ...

'21 Grams' Movie Review (2003) November 21, 2003. By Brad Brevet . ... 21 Grams is one of the three somber movies of 2003 that will have the Academy members thinking Oscar.

21 Grams is a chronological jigsaw puzzle of flash-every-which-way, making it difficult for the audience to assemble. Otherwise it is a well-acted piece of work with an imaginative plot. Let's ...

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Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Phone: (310) 385-4000. Fax: (310) 385-4408. Website: www.focusfeatures.com. SUMMARY: 21 GRAMS tells the story of two men and one woman, whose lives become intertwined when one of the men accidentally kills the woman's family and the other man gets the heart of the woman's husband transplanted into his body.

21 Grams (2003) movie review summary: Sean Penn delivers what could well be his most nuanced performance to date in director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga's unnecessarily labyrinthine and cliché-plagued drama.; Also on the plus side, cast members Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Melissa Leo, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are in top form.

21 Grams Movie Review: A Clunky Investigative Thriller Redeemed Partly By A Killer Climax. Cast: Anoop Menon, Renji Panicker, Leona Lishoy, Anu Mohan. Director: Bibin Krishna. Director Bibin Krishna's 21 Grams is madly in love with co-incidences. Written around the murder of two siblings, the film finds one too many ways to connect these deaths ...