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There Be Dragons

Play trailer Poster for There Be Dragons PG-13 2011 2h 0m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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An investigative journalist unearths secrets about his father's ties to the controversial founder of Opus Dei.
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Joe Neumaier New York Daily News May 7, 2011
2/5
Joffe, working from his own script, presents the men's lives as evidence of difficult choices, but this pedantic movie is never fully invested in any of them. Go to Full Review
Alonso Duralde Movies.com May 6, 2011
1/5
Putting aside the many aesthetic problems with this overwrought, over-narrated, and overacted movie, the politics of There Be Dragons make very little sense. Go to Full Review
Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor May 6, 2011
C-
Few films about the Spanish Civil War have been any good -- Pan's Labyrinth being the big exception. Go to Full Review
Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner Jan 8, 2019
2/5
There's a great film to be made about Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the controversial Opus Dei. There are more great films to be made about the complicated Spanish Civil War. This movie, however, is neither. Go to Full Review
Kiko Martinez San Antonio Current Jan 29, 2018
D
It's unfortunate director Roland Joff fails to capture real emotion and passion within the religious narrative. Without that perspective, there's no way he can breathe any life into the biopic, much less fire. Go to Full Review
Sr. Rose Pacatte National Catholic Reporter Jun 29, 2017
The cinematography is gorgeous, the art direction excellent, and the historical sequences, including the battle scenes, seem quite authentic. The visual parallel narrative structure, the subtleness of the religious imagery, works well. Go to Full Review
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mark g @Mark_Alan_G. Jul 30, 2024 Yikes! There is terrible and then there is There Be Dragons. One of the worst films I have ever seen. Terrible acting, no direction, pathetic story. This was a smoking pile of sh.... See more Marvin F @RT57394011 Jun 16, 2024 I liked it. A bit melodramatic or syrupy but the movie kept me engaged and made me feel emotions. It was also beautifully shot and I thought well acted despite the aforementioned. See more Mum L @RT92436478 Mar 17, 2024 Cinematography: excellent. Direction: very good. Dialogue: needed refining. Acting: some very good, some needed refining. Music: obsessive, distracting. I enjoyed the movie as I am a fan of both Charlie Cox and Olga Kurylenko, but the music was overbearing and constant. I was tempted to turn off the sound; then the film would have been a better experience considering the dialogue was predictable. Still worth the effort for the history behind it. See more Jerod S @jeroduptown Jan 19, 2022 What a dirge of a movie. Trying to be an epic film about the Spanish War, the Catholic church and the unearthing of grave secrets...it really doesn't hit any of those points well. See more Mar 3, 2020 I felt nothing during this entire movie -wait, that's not true - I felt that it was trying way too hard to elicit emotions. Not least of all in this regard (in this overbearing leftist suck-fest) was the sappy over-the-top score that was more like an musical assault than artistic support. "The strings say FEEL something!! - FEEL SOMETHING!!!!!!" Nauseating... See more Sep 17, 2016 Excellent movie. Has a lot of relationship plits and sub plots all under the backdrop of civil war. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An investigative journalist unearths secrets about his father's ties to the controversial founder of Opus Dei.
Director
Roland Joffé
Producer
Ignacio Gómez-Sancha, Roland Joffé, Ignacio Núñez
Screenwriter
Roland Joffé
Distributor
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co
Antena 3 Films
Rating
PG-13 (Violence and Combat Sequences|Thematic Elements|Some Language)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 6, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.1M
Runtime
2h 0m
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