
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to English émigré; Christina Peck, who's hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found Jesus are brought together by a terrible accident which changes their lives.... (Full plot summary below)
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Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to English émigré; Christina Peck, who's hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found Jesus are brought together by a terrible accident which changes their lives.
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| The New York TimesA.O. ScottYou won't come out unaffected, because the depths of intimacy that the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu plumbs here are so rarely touched by filmmakers that 21 Grams is tantamount to the discovery of a new country. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe performances, the way Inarritu deconstructs and reconstructs the narrative, the grainy, gritty feel and look, all lead to the rare sort of experience that only a truly great film can offer. |
| Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)Brian GibsonA moving, artful matrix of distantly connected decisions, interlaced themes and parallel images . . . smart editing and powerful performances. |
| MoviolaJorge Avila Andrade'Iñárritu y Arriaga crean una historia trepidante, poderosa y profundamente humana' |
| Arizona RepublicBill MullerEvery year needs a challenging masterwork, a movie that defies filmmaking convention and leaves an indelible mark on the collective psyche. |
| EmpireRob Fraser21 Grams strives for greatness, and that's precisely what it achieves. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanWatts, who has the most difficult scenes, is splendidly mercurial; what's surprising is that those professional storm clouds Penn and Del Toro are here as powerfully restrained as she is electrifying. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid Keyes...so stirring, so inquisitive and so uninhibited by the restraints of cinema that it absorbed me in ways that few movies ever have. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThis sad, staggering drama should be seen: out of the grimness, and the profound calamity, you can almost taste life in your mouth. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliA stunning kaleidoscope of a motion picture - a mosaic of images that gradually resolves itself into a powerful tale of tragedy and redemption. |