Joel Siegel Good Morning America Jan 5, 2018 C

Angelina, here's something to remember next time: It's better to tell us one story that makes us feel than a thousand stories that make us numb.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Oct 14, 2010 2/5

Important issues buried in soap opera silliness.

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Mark Collette Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) Sep 20, 2004 1.5/4

...brutally haunting images ... in a setting where sappy dialogue evaporates like water.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Mar 17, 2004 2/5

Se abordar os esforços humanitários ao redor do planeta é admirável, colocá-los em segundo plano para priorizar uma história de amor é mais do que frustrante; é imperdoável.

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Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald Feb 2, 2004 2/4

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Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette Jan 1, 2004 2/5

Beyond Borders trivializes the pain and suffering of actual people by reducing them to a backdrop for Hollywood twaddle.

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Mark Palermo The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Nov 22, 2003

Affecting moments appear sporadically in Beyond Borders, but they can't amend for the movie's lack of shame.

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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Nov 17, 2003 2/4

"Beyond Borders" is a soap opera with its heart in the right place.

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Brian Orndorf Modamag.com Nov 7, 2003 5/10

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Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com Nov 4, 2003 C-

While most movies insist on having 'plots,' this one boldly proceeds without one, flying in the face of convention.

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Matt Brunson Creative Loafing Nov 4, 2003 3/4

Those expecting Jolie's character to end up feeding and clothing every indigent person on the planet might be surprised at the movie's toughness and refusal to compromise.

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Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Nov 2, 2003 2/4

Beyond Borders should have been to relief efforts what Schindler's List was to the Holocaust. Or what Saving Private Ryan was to WWII.

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Marshall Fine Journal News (Westchester, NY) Oct 30, 2003 C

The idea of people from the West, previously indifferent, who immerse themselves in sickness and war in an effort to make a difference has been explored less melodramatically in an ongoing story arc on TV's E.R.

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Tim Cogshell Boxoffice Magazine Oct 30, 2003 1.5/5

A silly movie made all the more silly by how much it wants not to be a silly movie.

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Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.) Oct 30, 2003 2/4

It wavers like a child wanting to dive in to the deep end of a pool.

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Paul Povse State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) Oct 30, 2003 2/4

Beyond Borders can be wrenching and vigorously committed, but it's also occasionally tasteless and calculating. Think Doctor Zhivago with landmines.

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Steven Snyder Zertinet Movies Oct 29, 2003 1.5/4

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Victoria Alexander FilmsInReview.com Oct 29, 2003

It is a rather callous, travelogue look at misery around the world.

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Scott Warren Premiere Magazine Oct 28, 2003 2/4

This pop nugget of McHistory, for all of its aspirations to sermonize, never elevates beyond a simplistic morality tale of, well, black and white.

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Bruce Feld Film Journal International Oct 28, 2003

Beyond Borders is one of those rare big-budget films that has something of vital importance to say about the real world, and pulls no punches saying it.

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