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Like all great love stories, Ang Lee's is one of tragic romance, strongly acted by Heath Ledger as the most buttoned-up of cowboys, and Michelle Williams as his betrayed and enraged wife.

-Stephen WhittyFull Review

Ang Lee continues to astonish.

-Stanley Kauffmann

Both [Gyllenhaal and Ledger] embody what that old Waylon and Willie song taught us -- 'Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold.'

-Roger MooreFull Review

A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.

-Ann HornadayFull Review

It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been.

-Moira MacDonaldFull Review

The best movie of the year.

-Rene RodriguezFull Review

It has become shorthand to call Brokeback Mountain the 'gay cowboy movie,' but it is much more than that glib description implies. This is a human story, a haunting film in the tradition of the great Hollywood romantic melodramas.

-Colin CovertFull Review

A film about love and the cost of lying that's exquisite in its beauty, painful in its truths.

-Amy BiancolliFull Review

The movie has a universal quality because it tells a story of unfulfilled lives and roots it in the well-observed specifics of a vanishing Western culture.

-Robert Denerstein

Like these indelible cowboys, you, too, may find it impossible not to succumb to the powerful, quiet greatness that is Brokeback Mountain.

-Lisa KennedyFull Review

Brokeback Mountain the power to break your heart -- and, perhaps more important, to open it.

-Terry LawsonFull Review

With its measured pace and its sumptuous visuals, transforming a taboo into a romantic totem, this opening act is fascinating, like watching Red River with the subtext cranked way up.

-Rick GroenFull Review

If love does indeed conquer all, it should win hearts across America. If not, then its focus on a tragic stigma will remain as valid as its story suggests.

-Tom LongFull Review

The reason to see Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, and see it you should, isn't its hot-button topicality or its cultural cachet but simply that it's a very good movie, with a staggeringly fine performance by Heath Ledger.

-Ty BurrFull Review

There's no contest. Brokeback Mountain is the most poignant movie love story of the year.

-Bill MullerFull Review

If the cowboy movies of John Wayne and John Ford were about the opening of the American West, Brokeback Mountain is the somber slam of its closing.

-Bruce Newman

A good and eloquent Wyoming-set love story with a great performance at its heart.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

Much as it is about love, Brokeback is also a potent study of repression that comes alive in Ledger's shattering performance.

-Carrie Rickey

A story of forbidden love on the range, Brokeback Mountain is acted, directed, written and photographed with heart-pounding beauty.

-Philip WuntchFull Review

Brokeback Mountain is a love story, but that's not all it is. In some ways, the movie is as much about the way we were as the way they are.

-Eleanor Ringel GillespieFull Review

The filmmakers have focused so intently and with such feeling on Jack and Ennis that the movie is as observant as work by Bergman.

-Roger EbertFull Review

I was never moved or even overly excited by what I finally witnessed on the screen, though I have no quarrel with the superlatives heaped upon the film by most of my colleagues.

-Andrew SarrisFull Review

Quite simply, this is one of the best films of the year.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review

Quite simply, this is one of the best films of the year.

-Paul Clinton (CNN.com)Full Review

It's a brave and affecting effort from a director from whom we have come to expect worthwhile things.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

It's an old-style virtue for a film that's old-style in the best way: unassuming but people-oriented and aiming to endure.

-Mike ClarkFull Review

An epic, heartbreaking love story that's far greater than the sum of its parts.

-Jami BernardFull Review

This is one of the best serious films about homosexuality ever made, but though it's sad and sobering it's still only a rough draft of a great movie.

-Kyle SmithFull Review

Ang Lee conveys maddening delirium rendered in the way one man's eyes gaze at another's, and then look away, and the looking-away amounts to the murder of two souls as surely as if they'd drawn guns and hit each other in the heart.

-Ken TuckerFull Review

Brokeback Mountain takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive.

-Stephanie ZacharekFull Review


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