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Elegy (2008)   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* Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "There's a poetic irony to the idea that it took a female filmmaker to finally do justice to Philip Roth on screen." more... A   Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen "...Elegy eems determined to make real every ageist dig that could be thrown its way ." more... C- New York Post Linda Stasi "...skip Elegy, a windbaggy film of Phillip Roth's novella The Dying Animal." more... D+ New York Times Manohla Dargis "The film is an overly polite take on a spiky, claustrophobic, insistently impolite novel." more... C   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Ben Kingsley gives a masterful performance." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "Deeply affecting." more... A   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "His character's a jerk, but Ben Kingsley still gets us to root for him." more... B   USA Today Claudia Puig "...a deeply affecting and profoundly observed saga about love, art, beauty and, especially, mortality." more... B+ * 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...)