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Ben Lyons, At the Movies: I do respect Steven Soderberg for taking on this film and giving us a great part one and for Del Toro's performance alone. Read more
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A.O. Scott, New York Times: Mr. Soderbergh once again offers a master class in filmmaking. As history, though, Che is finally not epic but romance. It takes great care to be true to the factual record, but it is, nonetheless, a fairy tale. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The whole movie is a forced march. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: In so many ways, Soderbergh's film does the right things, usually by omission. Why, then, does it feel slightly wrong? Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries Read more
Ruth Hessey, MovieTime, ABC Radio National: Soderbergh has made two almost perfect war films, more like the Rings Trilogy than The Green Berets. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: In both halves, Soderbergh emphasizes observation over ideology with an eye toward the mundane details of life on the front lines of a revolution. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: You can smell the gun smoke and taste the cigars. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The film's last chapter is arid yet breathtaking cinema, marked by despairing visuals and a climax that withers, not winds, to a close. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This biopic of Ernesto Che Guevara starring Benicio Del Toro may have pretensions to be Lawrence of Arabia but, at least in its second half, it's more like Che of the Bolivian Jungle. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Che, the story of a failed revolutionary, also fails as a film. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: He's made a film that embraces the romance of revolution only to shake it off, leaving very little in its place. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: This isn't a biography -- it's a nature show where Guevara is the lion. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: As absorbing as it is frustrating. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: For all the movie's narrative momentum, Che retains the air of a study exercise -- of an interest brilliantly explored. How else to explain one's total flatness of feeling at the climax of each movie? Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Soderbergh's eye for detail builds over time, until the film becomes as layered as some richly leaf-carpeted jungle floor. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Meet Che Guevara. Just think of him as Jesus plus Abraham Lincoln with a touch of Moses and Dr. Doug Ross. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: In releasing this reverent, meticulous, fascinating but flaccid history in two lengthy parts, Soderbergh committed perhaps the greatest sin of all. He made Che boring. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: With Benicio Del Toro delivering a fiercely indrawn and mesmerizing performance in the title role, Che is neither a hagiography nor a superficial character sketch. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Benicio Del Toro, one of the film's producers, gives a heroic performance, not least because it's self-effacing. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A measure of the movie's strength and weakness is its reliance on Del Toro's charisma in the central role. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A potentially great title-role performance by Benicio Del Toro, which won him the best actor award at Cannes, is buried beneath Soderbergh's stylistic tics and a defiant lack of dramatic tension. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: It's not a Hollywood-style movie - it demands patience and proper attention - but it's a great movie, and rewards magnificently. Read more