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Delivers the entertaining goods without fuss or frills.
Read the full reviewAn intelligently proficient movie that works more effectively as a family drama than a legal thriller.
Read the full reviewThough it lacks the gloss, twists and star power of earlier Grisham movies, The Chamber does possess Gene Hackman's most cantankerous turn since the lowdown lawman he created in "Unforgiven."
Read the full reviewTiming does no favors for The Chamber, the John Grisham death row drama that arrives on the heels of a better death row film (''Dead Man Walking'') and a better Grisham adaptation (''A Time to Kill''). But this film's also-ran aspects are partly offset by Gene Hackman's superlative performance.
Read the full reviewMechanical and artificial, and tells you what to think.
Read the full reviewThe Chamber goes so far toward humanizing bigotry it ends up sentimentalizing it.
Read the full reviewThe films portray the Klan as criminal, racist and anonymous, but those have always been its selling points; it is not portrayed as boring and stupid.
Read the full reviewEven more sad is an embarrassingly shrill performance by Faye Dunaway, and an ending which insults the ability of the audience to watch a movie without having a conclusion spoon-fed to them.
Read the full reviewThe Chamber is like a balloon that all the air has leaked out of. Maybe it wasn't magnificent before, but in its current state it is sad indeed.
Read the full reviewThe Chamber has nowhere to go and it goes there slowly, flirting in all directions.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 45
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