Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 26, 2020 2.5/4.0

I have to fault the direction of Schumacher for many of the problems here.

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Sheila Norman-Culp Associated Press Nov 9, 2018

Blanchett's Veronica is a mesmerizing, complicated force of nature in this true-life tale.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jan 11, 2013 C

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dec 29, 2010 3/5

This is no Erin Brockovich.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 19, 2009 B+

Cate Blanchett gives a tour de force performance as Veronica Guerin under Joel Schumacher's direction of a no-nonsense script by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue.

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Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 4/5

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Philip French Observer (UK) Oct 15, 2007

Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Oct 15, 2007

Well-meaning but simpleminded.

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Sep 9, 2007 86/100

...a respectful quasi-documentary

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 24, 2007 B-

Blanchett nearly saves it, but it's too much a plastic-Jesus biopic.

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Brian Webster Apollo Guide Jun 4, 2007 71/100

While this is a movie that deserves a mildly favourable recommendation, it's also nothing short of a catastrophic fumble and an incredible lost opportunity.

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Damon Wise Empire Magazine Dec 30, 2006 3/5

A moving but gritty story of willpower and sacrifice that stops pleasingly short of a Hollywood varnish-job.

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Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight Aug 8, 2006 2/4

If you take out Cate Blanchett's amazing performance, you're left with a dull husk of a film from a director who knows little about filmmaking.

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Trevor Johnston Time Out Jan 26, 2006

Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.

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Chris Barsanti Filmcritic.com Oct 31, 2004 3.5/5

Cate Blanchett is most likely the greatest actress working in film today.

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Peter Rainer New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 7, 2004

While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.

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Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net Aug 3, 2004

Sporting a perfect Irish accent, [Cate Blanchett] imbues the character with a lot more presence than the script (and the director?) called for.

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Jordan Hiller Bangitout.com Jul 29, 2004 1.5

Guerin has the outward appearance of a quaint but brutal Irish gem like the works of Jim Sheridan and Neil Jordan, but looks are deceiving

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Martin Scribbs Low IQ Canadian Jun 13, 2004

Veronica Guerin is a sharp study of the vices that sometimes goad us to virtue.

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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Mar 18, 2004 2/5

Has its virtues, but they're the kind you can buy.

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