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There Be Dragons

PG-13 Released May 6, 2011 2h 0m Drama List
12% Tomatometer 41 Reviews 54% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings
An investigative journalist (Dougray Scott) unearths secrets about his father's (Wes Bentley) ties to the controversial founder (Charlie Cox) of Opus Dei. Read More Read Less
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Roger Moore Tribune News Service Unsatisfying, lacking the epic feel it was aiming for, and paid-for image-burnishing for the controversial founder of Opus Dei. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 15, 2013 Full Review Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic Rated: 1/5 Aug 12, 2011 Full Review Joe Neumaier New York Daily News Joffe, working from his own script, presents the men's lives as evidence of difficult choices, but this pedantic movie is never fully invested in any of them. Rated: 2/5 May 7, 2011 Full Review Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner There's a great film to be made about Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the controversial Opus Dei. There are more great films to be made about the complicated Spanish Civil War. This movie, however, is neither. Rated: 2/5 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review Kiko Martinez San Antonio Current It's unfortunate director Roland Joff fails to capture real emotion and passion within the religious narrative. Without that perspective, there's no way he can breathe any life into the biopic, much less fire. Rated: D Jan 29, 2018 Full Review Sr. Rose Pacatte National Catholic Reporter The cinematography is gorgeous, the art direction excellent, and the historical sequences, including the battle scenes, seem quite authentic. The visual parallel narrative structure, the subtleness of the religious imagery, works well. Jun 29, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Marvin F I liked it. A bit melodramatic or syrupy but the movie kept me engaged and made me feel emotions. It was also beautifully shot and I thought well acted despite the aforementioned. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/16/24 Full Review Mum L Cinematography: excellent. Direction: very good. Dialogue: needed refining. Acting: some very good, some needed refining. Music: obsessive, distracting. I enjoyed the movie as I am a fan of both Charlie Cox and Olga Kurylenko, but the music was overbearing and constant. I was tempted to turn off the sound; then the film would have been a better experience considering the dialogue was predictable. Still worth the effort for the history behind it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/17/24 Full Review Audience Member What a dirge of a movie. Trying to be an epic film about the Spanish War, the Catholic church and the unearthing of grave secrets...it really doesn't hit any of those points well. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/03/23 Full Review Audience Member I felt nothing during this entire movie -wait, that's not true - I felt that it was trying way too hard to elicit emotions. Not least of all in this regard (in this overbearing leftist suck-fest) was the sappy over-the-top score that was more like an musical assault than artistic support. "The strings say FEEL something!! - FEEL SOMETHING!!!!!!" Nauseating... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent movie. Has a lot of relationship plits and sub plots all under the backdrop of civil war. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh, dear god, why, oh why do they still make movies with popular actors doing bad accents? It's like a a bad SNL sketch. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An investigative journalist (Dougray Scott) unearths secrets about his father's (Wes Bentley) ties to the controversial founder (Charlie Cox) of Opus Dei.
Director
Roland Joffé
Producer
Ignacio Gómez-Sancha, Roland Joffé, Ignacio Núñez
Screenwriter
Roland Joffé
Distributor
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co
Antena 3 Films
Rating
PG-13 (Violence and Combat Sequences|Thematic Elements|Some Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 6, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.1M
Runtime
2h 0m
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