Fresh
Happily, this extremely timely entertainment matches, even perhaps surpasses its predecessor.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
The Manchurian Candidate
Everything is under control.
2004 · 2h 9m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
Overview
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Demme Director
- Denzel Washington as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
- Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- Kimberly Elise as FBI Ag. Eugenie Rose
- Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
- Vera Farmiga as Jocelyne Jordan
- Jeffrey Wright as CPL Al Melvin
- Simon McBurney as Dr. Atticus Noyle
- Bruno Ganz as Delp
- David Keeley as Agent Evan Anderson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Demme serves the picture completely.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
Strikes me as a very artful cover -- about the cleverest imaginable transliteration of the story from its historical moment to ours.
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Far from a disgrace, but it's not freewheeling enough, not strange enough to make sense of our gathering dread.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
Beautifully made and unsurpassingly creepy, it's the rare remake with something contemporary to add.
David Edelstein, Slate
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