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Ride With the Devil (2008)

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Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Historical, Romance, War; With: Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich; Distributor: Universal

C+

By Erin Richter

In the TV-level tale Ride With the Devil, rendered with theatrical sensibilities like poetic dialogue and wide-screen vistas, director Ang Lee boldly illustrates the brutality of the Civil War and its effects on a band of pro-South bushwhackers. Neither the meandering script nor the central characters — an immigrant's son (Maguire), a freed slave (Jeffrey Wright), a frisky widow (Jewel), and a man of privilege (Ulrich, looking more Louis XIV France than Lincoln America) — seem to know where they're headed. C+

Posted Jul 21, 2000

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