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Reds

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

...a traditional Hollywood romantic epic, a love story written on the canvas of history, as they used to say in the ads.

...best of all, Jack Nicholson's moody, anguished portrait of Eugene O'Neill all but steals the film.

...REDS is a sprawling yet highly personal epic.

...the interviews are another nodto the cinéma vérité tradition that Reds tries to acknowledge without embracing