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The Crucible (1996)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten "...the story's slant seems less overtly political and rather more focused on sexual power and repression..." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The Crucible is a drama of ideas, but they seem laid on top of the material, not organically part of it." more... C   E! Online "(Winona) Ryder and (Joan) Allen shine amid the witch-hunt intrigue..." more... A- Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "...too frantic to be involving, too much an outpost of bedlam to be believable." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "...a powerful, thought-provoking production." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a seductively exciting film..." more... B+ San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann "...addresses a darkness of spirit that's in all of us..." more... A   Washington Post Rita Kempley "Handsome and well-acted, the film's ultimate success depends on the heat between Ryder and Day-Lewis, and it simply isn't there." more... C+ * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)