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What audiences can, and possibly will, care about, however, is a traditional Hollywood romantic epic, a love story written on the canvas of history, as they used to say in the ads. And "Reds" provides that with glorious romanticism, surprising intelligence, and a consistent wit.
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90% Tomatometer 49 Reviews 82% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary....
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Beatty‘s long-time passion project had been to take Reed’s larger-than-life story and turns it into a larger-than-life film. Using his star-power and probably lots of Beatty charm to secure funding, he packed it with an all-star team that’d make Oscar-baiters of today tremble. Behind the camera, he had legendary Italian cinematographer Vittorio Sto...
In many ways, Redsseems like what we’d now call “Oscar bait,” with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that. The film deals with, in great detail, the conflicts within the American labor movement at the time of the Russian Revolution—the difference between t...
No one in 1981 could have imagined how ubiquitous neoliberal ideology would become in American politics after that decade, and while it certainly is surprising that the film was made back then, it is much harder to imagine it getting made now. While Heaven’s Gate (1980) may have symbolized the end of auteur-controlled epics, Reds may be the final p...
Review this title. 155 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. A maverick magnum opus with a political theme -- rare in American movies. Chris Knipp 3 October 2006.
Reds seems like what we'd now call Oscar bait, with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that. Full ...
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.
Warren Beatty's Reds has to be considered perhaps the most ambitious, frankly crazy, film released by mainstream Hollywood. It is, in 1981, a sympathetic, if critical, look at the 1917 Russian Revolution.
