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Precious
Released: 29/01/2010
General Release
Lee Daniels directs this hard-hitting story, based on the book Push by Sapphire. Precious is a 16-year-old Harlem girl whose lot in life is so abominable the term disenfranchised doesn't even come close. Thankfully, inspiration is found in the form of new teacher Ms. Rain. Incongruously, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz star.
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The Times“Enjoyable for its rough energy and admirable for its optimism... ” The big weakness is the visualisation of her fantasies. In her most terrible ordeals, including a scene in which she is raped by her father, the film cuts to simple depictions of Precious as a glamorous star mobbed by fans and photographers...
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Rolling Stone“Deserves its place among the year's best films...” Precious tunnels inside your head, leaves you moved like no film in years and then lifts you up in ways you don't see coming. Despite the pain at the story's core, the movie has a spirit that soars...
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Total Film “A moving mix of melodrama and social tract...” Precious is a film of thunderclap revelations. Mo’Nique’s Mother Mary is the most compelling screen gorgon since Faye Dunaway’s Joan Crawford, an ugly, seething cauldron of self-justifying bitterness...
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The Telegraph“Precious? You have to be joking...” Sidibe, a first-time actress, doesn’t disgrace herself here. She does have a certain Easter Island-stature. But she doesn’t really have much to do. She’s either mute or — in voiceover — suddenly and implausibly eloquent...
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Little White Lies“Daniels’ directorial management of the material is a triumph...” Employing a suitably chiaroscuro film language to balance the emotional extremes of the subject matter, his vision is a lively composite of urban nightmare and garish escapism, over which he demonstrates remarkable control...
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Channel4 Film“Impressive performances...” Lee Daniels' directorial style on the other hand, is anything but light, hammering home the horrors of poverty, illiteracy and physical and sexual abuse suffered by teenaged Precious, played with incredible control by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe...
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Variety“An urban nightmare with a surfeit of soul...” “Precious” is a horror movie, of course, and Mary is a monster, whose one glimmer of humanity -- which Mo’Nique, who is utterly brilliant, reveals in a tour de force soliloquy at the finale -- only makes her more horrible...
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Time Out film“It’s hard to be unaffected by this familiar story of horrendous abuse...” The performances somehow make it work: not just Sidibe as Precious, but Mo’Nique as her mother, who in one scene towards the end single handedly takes the movie into far more rewardingly complex territory...
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